American Detective Stories
by Hillerman, Tony & Rosemary Herbert (editors)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0195085817
- ISBN 13
- 9780195085815
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0195085817 . Navy cloth w/gilded boarder & title. Light edge wear to boards and dust jacket. Former owners name on first end-page, some light edge smudges. A brief introduction of the author and his/her style precedes each of the 33 tales that illuminate the evolution of crime fiction in the U. S. And document America's contribution to the genre. Tracing its progress from elegant locked room mysteries, Through the hard-boiled realism of the '30's and 40's to the range of today's styles. Including some of the finest authors : Gardner, Chandler MacDonald Stout, McBain, Grafton, and Hillerman himself. .
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- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002447
- Title
- American Detective Stories
- Author
- Hillerman, Tony & Rosemary Herbert (editors)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0195085817
- ISBN 13
- 9780195085815
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Anthology, Mystery, Hard Boiled Crime, Detective Fiction, Chandler, Edgar Allen Poe, Early Mysteries, Literature Chronology. Fiction; Anthologies, Omnibus & Short Stories;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction: Mysteries/Thrillers & General;
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