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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very good + in very good + jacket. A Life. Sm 4to. Black cloth and orange boards, with gilt spine titles and embossed 'DJ' on front cover. 344 pages, with Selected Bibliography, Notes, and Index. With b/w photographic images. No names or marks. In illustrated dust jacket (with price intact).
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 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.