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The Dashiell Hammett Omnibus (in original dust jacket)
by Dashiell Hammett
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- fine/good
- Seller
-
Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935. Reissue. Hardcover. fine/good. Hardcover in orange cloth boldly lettered in black. 267 pp. Reissue, published the same year as the Knopf edition. Contains "Red Harvest", "The Dain Curse", and "The Maltese Falcon". Fine, bright example, binding firm, offsetting to the endpapers, usual embrowning to the pages. In the original pictorial dust jacket featuring the same elegantly suited fellow that appeared on the jacket of "The Thin Man". Short closed tear top left front panel, narrow scrape with some loss to the front gutter fold and some wear about the edges and spine ends. Very scarce in dust jacket in either edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E20041
- Title
- The Dashiell Hammett Omnibus (in original dust jacket)
- Author
- Dashiell Hammett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fine
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reissue
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- mystery, suspense, noir, philip marlowe, sam spade, bogart, movies, vintage, hollywood
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
TRACKING AND INSURANCE AT OPTION OF BUYER. ON UNINSURED ITEMS, OUR RESPONSIBILITY ENDS WITH PROOF OF SHIPPING---NO EXCEPTIONS! Books are returnable if misdescribed; we must be notified within 48 hours of receipt if making a return. We conform to accepted ABAA grading. "First edition" means "first printing" unless noted; if it doesn't say it has a jacket then it doesn't; faults such as ownership signatures, price clipping, etc. will be noted in the listing. Member ABAA, ILAB, ABNJ.
About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Jacket
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- Fine
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