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The Big Knockover
de Hammett, Dashiell
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- Librería
-
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
First edition first printing of this collection of selected stories and short novels edited by Lillian Hellman. There is a 1 inch semi closed tear to the bottom edge of the rear dustjacket panel. Three semi closed tears to the top edge the dustjacket. Price clipped otherwise in very good / very good condition.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Scene of the Crime Books, ABAC, IOBA
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 19761125488
- Título
- The Big Knockover
- Autor
- Hammett, Dashiell
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition first printing
- Editorial
- Random House
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1966
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Thriller; Hard Boiled; Suspense; Mystery; Detective;
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Scene of the Crime Books, ABAC, IOBA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
St. Catharines, Ontario
Sobre Scene of the Crime Books, ABAC, IOBA
My wife and I have been operating Scene of the Crime Books since 1996. In 2004 we attempted to go against the market and open a storefront on Oakville Ontario. In August 2006 we closed the brick and mortar and humbly went back to just internet. We now do internet and appointment only through our home. So if you're in our neighborhood let us know 24 hours ahead of time. Thank you. Don Longmuir
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