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The Glass Key
por HAMMETT, Dashiell
- Usado
- Perto de Excelente
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Perto de Excelente/Very Good
- Livreiro
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition (preceded by the British edition) in first issue dustwapper. The usual light sunning on the boards, a near fine copy in an attractive very good or better wrapper with light sunning on the spine, a couple of small creases and light edgewear. The author's uncommon fourth book.
Sinopse
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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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 424359
- Título
- The Glass Key
- Autor
- HAMMETT, Dashiell
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Perto de Excelente
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Very Good
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 1931
- Palavras-chave
- Mystery
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Sobre o Vendedor
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Membro de Biblio desde 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
Sobre Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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