Hardboiled America: The Lurid Years of Paperbacks by O'Brien, Geoffrey - 1981

Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1981. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1981. first edition first printing. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good jacket in protective mylar. Some wear to corners and bottom board edges; some light rubbing/wear to covers; some slanting to spine; some soiling to page edges; pages browning. Jacket with some wear to edges and corners; some rubbing/wear to panels; some age toning to panels; some soiling to panels; some sunning to spine; some creasing to panels.

Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981-07-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0.8000 in x 9.1000 in x 6.2000 in. Ex-Library. Hardcover.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Illustrated throughout in black & white and color.

New York: NY Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1981. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. . Cloth with Dustjacket. The original hardcover edition of a history of the 25 cents paperbacks of the 40's & 50's w.emphasis on detective fiction. Many illus. some color. Fine/fine.

NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1981. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in navy blue cloth with gold gilt titles in a dust jacket depicting appropriately lurid cover by Norman Saunders. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. An appreciation of the hardboiled mass-market paperbacks of the '30s, '40s, and '50s and their extraordinary cover art. Illustrated plus Appendix, Checklist, Selected Bibliography, Index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 144 pages; Description: 144 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 143. Subjects: American fiction --20th century --History and criticism. Noir fiction, American --History and criticism. Review copy with publisher's slip loosely inserted.

VAN NOSTRAND. NY 1981. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0442231407 . First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Excellent reference to vintage paperbacks. Color insert. .

Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981-07-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!