The Heat's on
by HIMES, CHESTER
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Piermont, New York, United States
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About This Item
Chatham: The Chatham Bookseller, 1975 Facsimile reprint of the 1964 Himes novel featuring Harlem cops Coffin Ed and Gravedigger Jones, and the usual Himes cast of Harlemites. A fine copy in gilt-stamped red cloth, published without a dust jacket..
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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- Bookseller
- Trevian Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015065
- Title
- The Heat's on
- Author
- HIMES, CHESTER
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatham: The Chatham Bookseller, 1975
- Keywords
- Himes Gravedigger Harlem
- Bookseller catalogs
- New York City;
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Fine
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