secret agent x 9 book two de hammett dashiell (5 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Good. Alex Raymond. (illustrateur). 1st Edition. 1st thus. Ob large 8vo. 120pp. Comic strips. Untidy ownership inscription inside the front cover. Company name & address stamped on title page (bookseller's?). Apart from the odd stain the contents are VG. The covers are sl. rubbed & creased but complete and quite respectable. A scarce early comic strip by the author of "the Maltese Falcon".

Soft cover. Etat : Poor. Not Stated/assumed First Edition. Heavy creasing to cover with a tear half the way down from the top on the front (archivally taped inside) and tape at the title page tear (first page) andrear cover. Heavy soil staining to the first few pages. And some scattered (fairly well done) coloring of the pictures near the front & scattered in a few other places throughout. Corner page chips at 70 and 71, and some mild red pencil or ink numbers on the inside rear cover. About 7-1/2 x 8 oblong. Scarce in poor condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

120 pp. Illustrations by Alex Raymond (comic strips). Square 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards illustrated in color. First edition. Light edgewear; slight sunning to wrappers.

Paperback. Etat : Good. 120 pages, 12mo. Very Scarce. Book Two. Illustrations by Alex Raymond. Printed in the United States of America. Color illustrated soft wraps: at bottom right corner of front cover in orange circle: Book 2. Blue taped spine. Shelfwear: heavy scuffing along edges and covers, heavy creases and wrinkling on covers. Light tanning with some light foxing along page edges. Tightly bound with clean and crisp pages. No marks. Volume is in Good condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Beginning in 1931 The News Syndicate's "Dick Tracy" comic strip soared in popularity among newspaper readers. _____ All the other strip wholesalers scrambled to create similar crime dramas. _____ King Features, controlled by The Hearst Company, had "Dan Dunn: Secret Operative 48" but felt compelled to generate another competitive strip as well. _____ They were delighted when the well-established hard-boiled writer Dashiell Hammett agreed to create stories for the new strip. _____ King selected Alex "Flash Gordon" Raymond, already in their stable, to provide the artwork. _____ This team worked until 1935, when Hammett turned over the story work to Leslie Charteris. _____ We offer the complete two-volume set of the anthologies issued in the 1930's, they would not be re-issued until the 1970's. _____ Both are bound in full-color, cardboard covers, stapled through front to back, with a cloth spine glued over. _____ This was a binding format cheap to produce and difficult to preserve. _____ This set shows all the problems inherent in binding style and all the enthusiasms of their juvenile readers _____ . _____ BOOK ONE; 1934/nd; 80 pp.; VG-; Both covers show considerable crazing to the the illustration, probably from having been bent back for reading. _____ The top inch of the red cloth spine has peeled down, both head & foot of the cloth are frayed. _____ The lower inch of the front forecorner is missing from the front cover and first two pages. Layman=A7.1. _____ . _____ BOOK TWO; 1934/nd; 120 pp.; VG- Both covers show considerable crazing to the the illustration, probably from having been bent back for reading. _____ The head & foot of the blue cloth spine are frayed. _____ The front cover has a messy 2" tear up the front panel. _____ It has also nearly detached from "paper fatigue" at the hinge, now reinforced on the inside. _____ There are also a pair of 1" tears to the bottom of the title page. Layman=A8.1. [kwA_ 1st Ed. ].