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THE GLASS KEY
de HAMMETT, Dashiell:
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London: Alfred A. Knopf. 1931. First edition in book form, first printing [first state]. First edition in book form, first printing [first state]. Publisher's original blue cloth with red titles to the spine and white key illustration to the upper board, lacking the rare dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing and bumping to the extremities, the cloth clean though darkened to the spine. The contents, with a small previous owner's name to the front endpaper and the odd finger marks to the margins are otherwise clean. First published over four issues of Black Mask magazinel beginning March 1930) under the editorship of Joseph T. Shaw. This first edition in book form, in the correct first state of binding and contents (with Knopf stamped to the bottom of the spine and no mention of Cassell on the title page) was issued in January 1931 preceding the American book publication by three months. A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. (Hubin; Layman A4.1). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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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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- Título
- THE GLASS KEY
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- HAMMETT, Dashiell:
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- First edition in book form, first printing [first state]
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- London: Alfred A. Knopf. 1931
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
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- Dustwrapper
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- Cloth
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- First State
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