The Complete Dashiell Hammett - The Thin Man, The Glass Key, The Maltese Falcon, The Dain Curse [and] Red Harvest.
by HAMMETT, Dashiell
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf, New York., 1942. First edition thus. Octavo. pp [vi], 258 + 282 + 267 + 272 + 270. Endpapers a little darkened at hinges. Fine in very good photographic dustwrapper rubbed at edges and a little torn and creased at top edge of lower panel and with the usual fading to the spine.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HAMMETTD019993
- Title
- The Complete Dashiell Hammett - The Thin Man, The Glass Key, The Maltese Falcon, The Dain Curse [and] Red Harvest.
- Author
- HAMMETT, Dashiell
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
- Date Published
- 1942
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