Description: TOUGH GUY WRITERS OF THE THIRTIES Edited with an introduction by David Madden. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, (1968). First edition, first printing. Preface by Harry T. Moore. A collection of eighteen superb essays by scholars and literary writers on hard boiled and tough guy authors, characters, and writing in the 1930s that discuss a large selection of examples including Ernest Hemingway, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Horace McCoy, Dashiell Hammett, Black Mask writers and styles, gangster novels, Hollywood novels, and much more. Fine in bright orange linen with gilt embossed insignia to the front cover and with gilt embossed titles and insignia to the spine, upper page edges orange; in an about near fine lightly rubbed dust jacket with a touch of fading to the spine panel and with nicks and very short rubbed tears to the upper and lower spine edges; original printed $6.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 247 pages; notes; index. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!
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Restocking Fee: No
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Carbondale and Edwardsville
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Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1968
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, First printing
Author: David Madden, James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett
Personalized: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Mystery, Hardboiled, Writing, Film, Criticism, Reference
