According to Nathan Ward, "the first chapters had actually made the magazine rounds without a bite for several months - turned down by one editor after another over the book's apparent hard-drinking lewdness and amorality - before REDBOOK bought the rights." A core work by one of the founders of American noir. THE THIN MAN first appeared in expurgated form in REDBOOK a month before its publication in book form here. The added comedy and style in this revision translated surprisingly well on screen, with the 1934 film adaptation garnering four Oscar nominations and, today, legendary status. When he returned to it, Hammett moved the setting to New York and made his hero a famous but retired sleuth who is pulled reluctantly into intrigue. Hammett first began THE THIN MAN in 1930, writing in his comfortable wheelhouse of a San Francisco hard-boiled detective navigating a dark plot, but soon set the book aside. First printing of Hammett's final novel, an unusually nice copy of a book difficult to find in collectible condition.
Housed in a quarter-leather clamshell box.Ĭondition: Near fine in near-fine jacket. But for the first time he creates fully drawn characters, Nick and Nora Charles: a sardonic, witty, likable, mutually affectionate married couple who have found an enduring and endearing place in the annals of detectives and detective fiction. THE THIN MAN is just as hard-boiled and terse as Hammett's previous novels and retains the same edge and bluntness. Entirely unrestored, color bright, undeniable eye appeal when one compares this first edition to 95% of those other examples which appear at regular intervals in commerce. For this particular title, this is a Fine copy or damn close to it. The original priced ($2.00) pictorial dust jacket is the red variant, and it sports some minor edge-wear, a front fold which is a little rubbed, a spine panel with a very faint crease.
A Fine copy in publisher's original light green cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in dark blue and red, without sun-fade or mottling of the cloth, very clean, no ownership marks, nothing to detract. New York: Knopf, (1934), First Edition (so stated), first state of the text.
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