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Hammett, Dashiell. THE THIN MAN. New York: Knopf, (1934), First Edition (so stated), first state of the text. 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. 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. For this particular title, this is a Fine copy or damn close to it. 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. Here you'll get a copy that is twenty times nicer for less than twice retail. THE THIN MAN is just as hard-boiled and terse as Hammett's previous novels and retains the same edge and bluntness. 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. Housed in a quarter-leather clamshell box.

The Thin Man is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in the December 1933 issue of Redbook. It is the last novel Hammett completed and features the characters Nick and Nora Charles, who would later become widely recognized through the series of films made from the book.