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The Big Knockover
by Dashiell Hammett
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good-
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Hudson, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
"The Big Knockover" by DASHIELL HAMMETT (author of "The Maltese Falcon") with its original dust jacket. 1966 1st edition, 1st printing (stated); Random House; New York. The book is a collection of selected stories and short novels.
From the dust jacket: "Hammett was the creator of the modern suspense novel, but he also wrote, in the twenties and early thirties, a great many stories and short novels. This vintage collection of nine of the best of these works - plus an unfinished novel, Tulip, which is radically different in style and purpose from anything he had written previously - has been chosen and edited by Lillian Hellmann. None of these selections has ever appeared in hardcover book form before. This superb collection opens with a moving and sympathetic personal memoir by Lillian Hellman, who was a closes friend of Mr. Hammett for almost thirty years."
Condition:
The book is in Fine condition and appears unread - clean both inside and out with no issues found. The dust jacket has some light staining on the back cover and a few small tears at the top and bottom edges of the spine...overall the jacket is in Very Good- condition. (The dust jacket comes with a clear protective sleeve - not shown.)
Synopsis
Dashiell Samuel Hammett was born in St. Mary’s County. He grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Hammett left school at the age of fourteen and held several kinds of jobs thereafter—messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, operator, and stevedore, finally becoming an operative for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency. Sleuthing suited young Hammett, but World War I intervened, interrupting his work and injuring his health. When Sergeant Hammett was discharged from the last of several hospitals, he resumed detective work. He soon turned to writing, and in the late 1920s Hammett became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. In The Maltese Falcon (1930) he first introduced his famous private eye, Sam Spade. The Thin Man (1932) offered another immortal sleuth, Nick Charles. Red Harvest (1929), The Dain Curse (1929), and The Glass Key (1931) are among his most successful novels. During World War II, Hammett again served as sergeant in the Army, this time for more than two years, most of which he spent in the Aleutians. Hammett’s later life was marked in part by ill health, alcoholism, a period of imprisonment related to his alleged membership in the Communist Party, and by his long-time companion, the author Lillian Hellman, with whom he had a very volatile relationship. His attempt at autobiographical fiction survives in the story “Tulip,” which is contained in the posthumous collection The Big Knockover (1966, edited by Lillian Hellman). Another volume of his stories, The Continental Op (1974, edited by Stephen Marcus), introduced the final Hammett character: the “Op,” a nameless detective (or “operative”) who displays little of his personality, making him a classic tough guy in the hard-boiled mold—a bit like Hammett himself.
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- Bookseller
- CraigsClassics
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7702
- Title
- The Big Knockover
- Author
- Dashiell Hammett
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- dashiell hammett, maltese falcon, the big knockover, the thin man, dain curse, glass key, house in turk street, nightmare town, tenth clew, dead yellow women
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Fiction;
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About the Seller
CraigsClassics
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Hudson, New Hampshire
About CraigsClassics
My store offers a curated selection of antiquarian books in a variety of topics with an emphasis on classic literature and children's classics. I take pride in providing great customer service with prompt replies to offers and inquiries, careful packaging and next-day shipping. Based in scenic southern New Hampshire.
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