Author: HAMMETT, DASHIELL.
Title: The Thin Man.
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First and Second Printings Before Publication, Published January 8, 1934. (With 'seep' for 'sleep' to p.209). Faded turquoise cloth with dark blue 'mask' motif to front and red and blue pattern to spine. Top edge red. Pp.359, owner's ink monogram (FMJ) to front free endpaper and small inked date to base of rear paste-down, endpapers browned. Newspaper cutting photograph of Dashiell Hammett tipped-in to inner front endpaper + further browned and folded newspaper cutting (Evening Standard, Dec.17 1951) (giving a brief article about the author prompted by his disappearnce following his two months sentence for refusing to inform on who put up a bond for convicted 'Communists' during 1950s McCarthyism), loosely enclosed. Good.

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