THE CRAZY KILL
by Himes, Chester
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus to Very Good
- Seller
-
Canandaigua, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1966. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Berkley Medallion F1261; One of Himes' mystery series set in New York's Harlem and featuring African-American police detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones; cover art by Harry Bennett; mass market paperback, First Printing of First Berkley Edition; text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned with very slight spine lean; white pictorial wrappers are slightly discolorred around edges, show reading creases, minor surface wear. Scarce. Collectable.
Synopsis
Chester Himes was born in Missouri in 1909. He began writing while serving a prison sentence for a jewel theft and published just short of twenty novels before his death in 1984. Among his best-known thrillers are Blind Man with a Pistol , Cotton Comes to Harlem , The Crazy Kill , A Rage in Harlem , The Real Cool Killers , and The Heat's On , all available from Vintage.
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Details
- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001873
- Title
- THE CRAZY KILL
- Author
- Himes, Chester
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus to Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing, First Edition Thus.
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Berkley Publishing Corp.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- MYSTERY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, FIRST EDITION, HARLEM, VINTAGE PAPERBACK
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery; Vintage Paperback; African American;
Terms of Sale
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
All books subject to prior sale. All books returnable within two weeks for any reason. Please return by USPS (media mail rate) and note the reason for return. All sales subject to applicable taxes.
About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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