Title: The Thin Man
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Cover artist: Harry Bennett
Estimated value: $15-20 (perfect, square, bright)
- Nick looks like I feel these days. "Fuck all this. Where's the bar?"
- The color shading on this is all kinds of weird. Conventional figurative art that looks like it's been cut out of a magazine by an 8-year-old and then glued into the white rectangle.
- Joey Backwards chair is explaining certain anatomical facts about himself to Millie Sweetgams, much to her amusement.
- ASTA!
- Bah. Same.
- Cover is cropped weird. Very close to lopping off lettering on the left.
- "When you were wrestling with Mimi [!?] didn't you get excited." "Oh, a little." Man, between front and back covers, you'd think "The Thin Man" were subtitled "All About Boners."
Page 123~
"Good God, no! She hates men more than any woman I've ever known who wasn't a Lesbian."
Sorry, fans of movie-Nick. Didn't mean to startle you with book-Nick's dickishness. Mix a cocktail and drink until you forget you ever read the above quote.
~RP
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2 comments:
I cannot begin to imagine William Powell saying that to Myrna Loy...
Seriously, though, what on Earth is Joey Backwards chair supposed to be doing with his fingers? Isn't that something Beavis and Butthead would do? Also, I think this book was the victim of a manufacturing error. I don't think the back cover was meant to look that way.
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