Hellman lillian intro (14 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: VERY GOOD Minus. First Edition By This Publisher. 196 pages. " A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O?Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett?s coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted three generations of readers. " >>Cover creasing; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. ADAMS Cover art! (illustratore). Book.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good / Very Good. First Edition By This Publisher. 219 pages. "Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthusiasm is doing his job, and in The Big Knockover the jobs entail taking on a gang of modern-day freebooters, a vice-ridden hell's acre in the Arizona desert, and the bank job to end all bank jobs, along with such assorted grifters as Babe McCloor, Bluepoint Vance, Alphabet Shorty McCoy, and the Dis-and-Dat Kid." C Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Adams Illustrated Cover. (illustratore). Book.…

HARDCOVER. Condizione: Very Good. Book Club Edition.. VERY GOOD CONDITION,clean, solid, bright.has no isbn.but I used a later copies for reference. It has no Book Club, but suspect it is some nice club edition. ; gold titles on black cloth spine strip.red TEXTURED hard covers. Cover has blind embossed 3x3" fer de lance style decoration ; Photos; 163pg pages; Author's experiences with Richard Nixon & McCarthy's HUAC Witchhunt.…

HARDCOVER. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. first edition,2p; "Second Printing". VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S7.95) DUST JACKET, clean, solid, bright; gold titles on black cloth spine strip.red TEXTURED cloth hard covers. Cover has GOLD embossed AUTHOR'S NAME decoration BLACK ENDPAPERS. Gold & White titles on bright red dust jacket. ; Photos; 163pg pages; Author's experiences with Richard Nixon & McCarthy's HUAC Witchhunt. Illustrated by Photographs (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair to Good, Reading Copy. Second Edition. 178 pages. " A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O?Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett?s coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted three generations of readers. " >> This is a reading copy! Cover creasing; 1" paper tear to front cover & first few pages, BUT story is not effected. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. GGA {Good Girl Art} NUDE Girl Painted Cover By Stanley Melzoff (illustratore). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. dj w/lite wear, clipped price, in mylar; (#276 in series, lists to 385 on dj reverse); red blumenthal binding w/gilt titles on black; Rockwell Kent end papers; 419 clean, unmarked pages.

"FIRST EDITION" stated on copyright page, NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD dust jacket with closed edge tears and dj flaps somewhat curled. 1st edition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition By This Publisher. THE MALTESE FALCON = 196 pages. " A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O?Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett?s coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted three generations of readers. " /// THE THIN MAN = 199 - 375 pages. >>Cover scuffing; store stamp to interior backcover. minor cover creasing. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Jason Kelly Cover. (illustratore). Book.…

Soft cover. Condizione: VERY GOOD Minus. First Edition By This Publisher. Introduction Lillian Hellman ; 240 pages. " His home base is the Continental Detective Agency in San Francisco - his field of operations, the globe. His prey-for-pay is a weird assortment of murders & masterminds, high-class crooks 7 low-down punks, in capers filled with flying bullets, fabulous broads, tantalizing mystery & point-black action." >> Cover crease; Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Painted Cover (illustratore). Book.…

probable Book Club edition. Complete texts of three novels, critical intro, commentaries by the author. Bright tight crisp unread PB copy. 5-1/2 x 9-1/4, 726 pp, glossy b/w-photos sections, b/w author photo. Fine unmarked, no spine creases. Trade paperback in glossy navy wraps.

Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Modern Library Edition. Very Good, bound in full cloth, with a Very Good dust jacket. Toning, minor rubbing and edge wear to jacket. Toning to interior. Crease to top corner of a few pages. No markings to text, binding strong. Small 8vo, 7 1/2"h x 5"w.

Slim octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) ink scribbles to prelims; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in very good condition in a good dust jacket, 8vo. Red cloth with gold facsimile signature and embossed decoration, black cloth shelf-back with titles in gold and embossed decoration near head of spine, black end-papers, black-and-white plates from photographs. Light wear, dust jacket edge-worn with crease to back panel and flaps, not price clipped ($7.95), inscribed by Hellman on half-title. Bookseller accession no.: 16230. Memoir of years (1950s) during witch-hunting McCarthyism. Inscribed by Author(s).…