HAMMETT, Dashiell

The Thin Man

NY: Knopf, (1934).

First Edition, First State (p.209, seep for sleep) in clipped Grosset & Dunlap dust jacket. Landmark of detective fiction, title was of course basis for the classic 1934 William Powell/Myrna Loy film (shot in just two weeks by director W.S. Van Dyke and the great cinematographer James Wong Howe). Very good copy in like dust jacket.

. Item #10046

Price: $1,275.00