THE HEAT'S ON
by Himes, Chester
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus to Very Good
- Seller
-
Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dell, 1967. First Printing, First U.S. PB Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Dell 3546; One of Himes' mystery-thriller novels featuring African-American police detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson rampaging through New York City and Harlem; basis for movie starring Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques; originally published in France as "Be Calm"; text is clean, tight, slightly age-tanned with a very slight spine lean; pictorial wrappers show a small tear at bottom of spine, very minimal other surface or edgewear. A collectable copy.
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 #
- 001806
- Title
- THE HEAT'S ON
- Author
- Himes, Chester
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus to Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing, First U.S. PB Edition.
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Dell
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- MYSTERY, FIRST EDITION, CRIME, MOVIES, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, VINTAGE PAPERBACK, HUMOR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime; Humor; African American;
Terms of Sale
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
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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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- 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....
- 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...
- PB
- ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.