The Heat's On
by Himes, Chester
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0850316685
- ISBN 13
- 9780850316681
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Allison & Busby, 1986-06-01. UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x5x0. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text unmarked. Edges of pages and text block tanned. The dust jacket shows some very light handling, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 174pp.
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
- Chaparral Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CHAPhimHO
- Title
- The Heat's On
- Author
- Himes, Chester
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK edition
- ISBN 10
- 0850316685
- ISBN 13
- 9780850316681
- Publisher
- Allison & Busby
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1986-06-01
- Size
- 7x5x0
- X weight
- 12 oz
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About the Seller
Chaparral Books
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Portland, Oregon
About Chaparral Books
Chaparral Books is located across from Elephant's Deli on S Corbett Avenue in Portland. We have a well rounded collection of subjects, including an extensive core collection in Western Americana and Native American Literature including Western Writers.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.