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Dashiell Hammett: A Life
by Johnson, Diane
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0394505018
- ISBN 13
- 9780394505015
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. pp. xxi, 344. 8vo. Bound in quarter black cloth over orange paper boards with gilt lettering to spine, blind-stamped decoration to front board. Black and white photographs. Light shelfwear, ink name & date; very good in lightly rubbed, good+ dustjacket with short closed tears to edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 052181
- Title
- Dashiell Hammett: A Life
- Author
- Johnson, Diane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394505018
- ISBN 13
- 9780394505015
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Biography;
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BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...