The Letters of Dashiell Hammett

Hammett, Dashiell; Layman, Richard; Marshall, Josephine Hammett

ISBN 10: 1582430810 / ISBN 13: 9781582430812

Edité par Counterpoint, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 2001

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FIRST PRINTING. "Here is a volume that generations of readers have longed for-the first-ever selection from the letters of Dashiell Hammett, the onetime private detective who, in five astonishing books written between 1927 and 1933, invented the modern American crime novel. Hammett was not only the founding member of the hardboiled school, he also was its greatest practitioner, and even after Chandler and all the rest, his body of work remains the solid-gold standard. The best of his work is literature-without the quotation marks. Though Hammett's work has long been world-famous, the writer's private life has always been obscure. Now his biographer, Richard Layman, and his granddaughter, Julie M. Rivett, have gathered a treasure trove of Hammett's correspondence, almost all of it from private collections, almost all of it previously unpublished." 650 pages. Save for some slight arching to spine, common in this book due to size/weight, A FINE COPY! LF.

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• Titre: The Letters of Dashiell Hammett
• Éditeur: Counterpoint, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1582430810
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781582430812
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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