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Dashiell Hammett: A Life
by Johnson, Diane
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394505018
- ISBN 13
- 9780394505015
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Good Condition. Bound in black half cloth with bold, bright and sharp titles, orange paper-wrapped boards, very clean, faintly rubbed edges. Paste-down and endpaper near inner hinge have blue fading from spine cloth. Upper edge of text block also has some of this faded blue. Solid, tight, square binding. Internals quite nice--clean and free from any markings. Jacket unclipped, clean, spine head and heel chipped, Inside of jacket has faded blue places from spine cloth. Dashiell Hammett's great original contribution to American Literature was the creation of the hard-boiled detective-- the Continental OP and Sam Spade. Diane Johnson traces the origins of these characters in Hammett's own experience as a Pinkerton agent in the West and shows how his vision of the world was shaped by this lonely, hard and often amoral existence. This is the definitive biography of this most important 20th century American writer. 344 pages with Notes and Index. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 1983, Random House, New York.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027586
- Title
- Dashiell Hammett: A Life
- Author
- Johnson, Diane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394505018
- ISBN 13
- 9780394505015
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- DASHIELL HAMMETT, 1894-1961 BIOGRAPHY NOVELISTS WRITERS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography. Autobiography;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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- Hinge
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- Spine
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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