![]() ![]() First printing of Hammett's final novel, an unusually nice copy of a book difficult to find in collectible condition. Housed in a quarter-leather clamshell box.Ĭondition: Near fine in near-fine jacket. But for the first time he creates fully drawn characters, Nick and Nora Charles: a sardonic, witty, likable, mutually affectionate married couple who have found an enduring and endearing place in the annals of detectives and detective fiction. THE THIN MAN is just as hard-boiled and terse as Hammett's previous novels and retains the same edge and bluntness. Entirely unrestored, color bright, undeniable eye appeal when one compares this first edition to 95% of those other examples which appear at regular intervals in commerce. ![]() ![]() For this particular title, this is a Fine copy or damn close to it. The original priced ($2.00) pictorial dust jacket is the red variant, and it sports some minor edge-wear, a front fold which is a little rubbed, a spine panel with a very faint crease. ![]() A Fine copy in publisher's original light green cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in dark blue and red, without sun-fade or mottling of the cloth, very clean, no ownership marks, nothing to detract. New York: Knopf, (1934), First Edition (so stated), first state of the text. ![]()
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