HAMMETT, Dashiell

The Maltese Falcon

New York: The Modern Library, 1934. First Modern Library Edition. First Printing. Octavo (17cm); flexible blue cloth boards, with titling and publishers logo stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; blue-grey topstain; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; xii,267,[1] + [6]pp publisher's catalog. Wear to spine ends, sunning to spine, with a tiny tear to center of front hinge, and a faint patch of fading to upper right corner of front cover; contents clean; Very Good or better. In the correct first printing dustjacket, priced 95 cents on front flap, with rear panel and verso advertising 225 titles; spine-sunned, shelfworn, shallow losses to spine ends, several small nicks and tears, and a corresponding loss to upper right corner of front panel, costing four letters in "Hammett;" just Very Good.

Hammett's masterpiece, a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone long-regarded as a high-spot of modern crime fiction, and basis for three film adaptations including the 1941 John Huston classic. LAYMAN A3.1.h.

Price: $450.00

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