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Kiss Me, Deadly
by Spillane, Mickey
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Northfield, Minnesota, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: E P Dutton, 1952. The sixth Mike Hammer mystery. Basis for the 1955 Robert Aldrich film starring Ralph Meeker as Hammer. First printing in a first state jacket with the circular "A New Mike Hammer Mystery" badge on the cover and the $2.50 price on the lower front flap. Gently bumped and rubbed, spine cocked. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, including 1/2" chips at the upper spine folds and front corner. Flaps very faintly foxed, in mylar. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
Synopsis
A beautiful woman's cold-blooded murder has the mark of the Mafia. Although warned to stay away, Hammer won't stop until he gets revenge.
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Details
- Bookseller
- MLC Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- D130602
- Title
- Kiss Me, Deadly
- Author
- Spillane, Mickey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- E P Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery/Suspense/Thriller;
Terms of Sale
MLC Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
MLC Books
Biblio member since 2009
Northfield, Minnesota
About MLC Books
MLC Books has been selling online since 2006, with a heavy emphasis on vintage and collectible crime fiction, other fiction, and books related to Minnesota. A diverse general stock available as well.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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