Dashiell Hammett (HBJ Album Biographies)
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. first edition. Hardcover. The personal copy of the HBJ Album Biographies series editor Matthew Bruccoli, inscribed on the fly leaf by the author, ''For Matt Bruccoli, with many thanks for his help and patience, (signed Julian Symons), May 1985.'' Hardcover, first edition. An absolutely Fine copy that comes with 2 Near Fine to Fine dust jackets. Also included is a 23 TLS from Symons to Bruccoli, in which Symons writes of the media reaction to this title and offers his regrets to Bruccoli over the publisher's decision to cancel the Album Biographies series. Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1931-2008) was the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and bibliographer of his time. Additionally, he wrote on, and edited critical editions of Hemingway, Hammett, Cozzens, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and Vladimir Nabokov. He studied bibliography under the tutelage of Fredson Bowers and worked with Jacob Blanck on the Bibliography of American Literature. He was responsible for the republication and rediscovery of dozens of forgotten American novels, and went on to be the editor and publisher of the 400+ volume Dictionary of Literary Biography, and was the chief editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press bibliography series. Digital images available upon request. Fine / Fine. Item #0077030
ISBN: 9780151239504
Price: $320.00