The Crazy Kill
by Himes, Chester
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Avon Books, 1959. Mass Market Paperback. Good. T-357. Text unmarked. Some tanning on the edges of the text block; light soiling on the bottom edge. The wrapper shows some handling and rubbing at the corners, small chip out at the head of the spine. 16mo. 160pp.
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 #
- CHAPhimCK
- Title
- The Crazy Kill
- Author
- Himes, Chester
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Avon Books
- Date Published
- 1959
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Chaparral Books
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About the Seller
Chaparral Books
Biblio member since 2015
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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- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...