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HAMMETT Dashiell. The Thin Man. , 1934.
Price: US$240.79 + shipping
Description: First UK edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth, spine and front board printed in black. London, Arthur Barker. A very good copy, some rubbing to extremities, crease to top right edge of cover, some ageing and spotting internally. Previous ownership gift inscription to front free endpaper.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Hammett, Dashiell. The Thin Man. Arthur Barker Ltd, London, 1934.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: About Very Good, lacking the jacket. Orange buckram, generally rubbed and soiled, with black ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear, clean internally. THE THIN MAN tells the story of "Nick Charles, ex-detective, as true and vivid a character as the famous Sam Spade of THE MALTESE FALCON." Praised by Sinclair Lewis as, "the most breathless of all his stories."
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First British Edition. Original orange-brown cloth, very good with minor wear to extremities, contains fading to spine with minor wear to crown and foot spine, half title page with minor foxing. We could locate no other copies of this edition for sale. This copy in a plastic-protective cover.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell.. The Thin Man.. Arthur Barker Ltd, London, 1934.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First British Edition, First Impression. A Good or better copy in dull orange cloth stamped in black at spine and on front cover (profile of tall thin hatted figure), lacking the very scarce dustwrapper. 284pp. Bottom edge untrimmed. Spine toned. Crown with short split. Rear spinefold fraying, but secure. Lower points abraded. Toning to half title page. Slightly cocked. Text is clean and unmarked, with no dog-ears. A scarce book in the original binding. Q14548
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. THE THIN MAN. Arthur Barker Ltd., London, 1934.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [6],7-284,[4]pp. Pictorial bookplate and private library stamp of Italian bibliophile Giuseppe Orlando, with his holograph signature and date of acquisition (Feb.1935) at upper margin of title page. Base of spine gently nudged, some very faint adhesive residue surrounding the bookplate, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 7/6 net), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with some mild dustiness, and a few small edge tears and attendant creases; an unrestored, Very Good+ example. Hammett's fifth and final novel, a commercial success upon publication, selling more than 30,000 copies within a few months of its release on 8 January, 1934. The UK edition followed Knopf's four months later, with portions of the text revised by Hammett, and like all UK editions of Hammett books, it is considerably scarcer than its American counterpart. Basis for W.S. Van Dyke's film of the same name released later the same year, and spawning a successful series of subsequent films through 1947. Uncommon in dustjacket, with the last collectible example offered at the Rechler sale (Christies, 2002). Layman A6.3; Hubin, p.185.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.