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RED HARVEST
by Hammett, Dashiell
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, c. 1930s-1940s [1929]. First Edition Reprint. 8vo., 270 pp., G+/G-; DJ, spine black with tan lettering, black/red/yellow/tan pictorial front cover with black lettering; tearing/chipping with material loss to edges of DJ, with material loss mostly to head and tail of spine, corners, and mid-bottom edge of back cover; age-toning and heavy wear to DJ, covers protected by mylar; maroon cloth boards, black title blocks with maroon lettering to spine and front board; bumping and chipping with gray discoloration to head and tail of spine, cocking to spine, boards shaken, binding intact yet fragile; starting hinge between head of spine and top left-hand corner of front board, front board firmly attached to text-block; age-toning to text-block; staining (likely liquid/moisture damage) to top and bottom edges of text-block, boards (predominantly to spine), and interior (mostly top margins between pp. 200 to back endpapers); wear to endpapers, including black and brown staining towards top left-hand corner of ffep as well as aforementioned liquid staining to top edge of bfep and back paste-down; age-toning to interior, text legible; Grosset & Dunlap reprint of the 1929 First Edition Thus, originally serialized 1927-1928 in Black Mask magazine; wartime edition stated to title page; shelved below Front Counter. 1284973. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Synopsis
Dashiell Samuel Hammett was born in St. Mary’s County. He grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Hammett left school at the age of fourteen and held several kinds of jobs thereafter—messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, operator, and stevedore, finally becoming an operative for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency. Sleuthing suited young Hammett, but World War I intervened, interrupting his work and injuring his health. When Sergeant Hammett was discharged from the last of several hospitals, he resumed detective work. He soon turned to writing, and in the late 1920s Hammett became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. In The Maltese Falcon (1930) he first introduced his famous private eye, Sam Spade. The Thin Man (1932) offered another immortal sleuth, Nick Charles. Red Harvest (1929), The Dain Curse (1929), and The Glass Key (1931) are among his most successful novels. During World War II, Hammett again served as sergeant in the Army, this time for more than two years, most of which he spent in the Aleutians. Hammett’s later life was marked in part by ill health, alcoholism, a period of imprisonment related to his alleged membership in the Communist Party, and by his long-time companion, the author Lillian Hellman, with whom he had a very volatile relationship. His attempt at autobiographical fiction survives in the story “Tulip,” which is contained in the posthumous collection The Big Knockover (1966, edited by Lillian Hellman). Another volume of his stories, The Continental Op (1974, edited by Stephen Marcus), introduced the final Hammett character: the “Op,” a nameless detective (or “operative”) who displays little of his personality, making him a classic tough guy in the hard-boiled mold—a bit like Hammett himself.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1284973
- Title
- RED HARVEST
- Author
- Hammett, Dashiell
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Reprint
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- c. 1930s-1940s [1929]
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About the Seller
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Glossary
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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