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HAMMETT, Dashiell (1894-1961). The Thin Man. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.

成交价 美元 27,500
估价
美元 15,000 – 美元 25,000
估价不包括买家酬金。成交总额为下锤价加以买家酬金及扣除可适用之费用。
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HAMMETT, Dashiell (1894-1961). The Thin Man. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.

成交价 美元 27,500
成交价 美元 27,500
细节
HAMMETT, Dashiell (1894-1961). The Thin Man. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.

A presentation copy of the first American edition of Hammett’s controversial hardboiled classic, in jacket, inscribed: “For Eric and Gerty with my best, if illiterate regards and things.” Sinclair Lewis described Hammett as "undoubtedly the best of American detective story writers, and The Thin Man is certainly the most breathless of his stories" (Nolan). The book was banned in Boston and bowdlerized in Britain over the use of the word “erection.” While the word was excised from the London edition (“erections did not, at that time, exist in the English novel” according to Julian Symons), the American publisher put an ad in The New York Times fanning the flames of the scandal. Layman A6.1.a; see William F. Nolan, Hammett: A Life at the Edge, p. 139.

Octavo (188 x 129mm). Original green cloth (spine slightly frayed); dust jacket (rubbed with a few creases, closed tears, and tape repairs); in slipcase. Provenance: Eric and Gerty (presentation signature) – Roger Rechler (his sale, Christie's New York, 11 October 2002, lot 136, $17,925).

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