Price: $500
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1934. First edition. The second book collecting the comic book series that Hammett and Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon) created in response to the popularity of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, created in 1931. Read More Item Details for Secret Agent X-9. Book 2 Add to Wish List
Item #376194
Price: $100
New York: Lawrence E. Spivak. Bestseller Mystery, No. B40, First book publication. Contains "The Big Knockover" and "$106,000 Blood Money" collected as a novel. Both stories first appeared in Black Mask. Read More Item Details for $106,000 Blood Money Add to Wish List
Item #376191
Price: $35,000
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, c. 1929. Likely Unique, and certainly the only surviving example, of the trial jacket for Hammet's second Continental Op book, which shows only the front and spine panels, leaving the rear panel and front and rear flaps blank. The colorway of the text on the..... Read More Item Details for The Dain Curse (Publisher's Trial Dust Jacket for the First Edition) Add to Wish List
Item #376184
Price: $500
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First American edition. From the collection of the publishing couple Selma Shapiro and Jim Silberman, who met working at Random House, where he was an editor and she was vice president of publicity. This was his father's copy as bookplate indicates. His father ran..... Read More Item Details for The Thin Man Add to Wish List
Item #367860
Price: $1,000
London: Victor Gollancz, 1932. First British edition, published in U.S. as Creeps By Night. With inserted slip about John Collier’s Green Thoughts. A notable anthology of strange tales, including Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Music of Erich Zann”, and stories by John Collier, Robert Dean Frisbie..... Read More Item Details for Modern Tales of Horror selected by Dashiell Hammett Add to Wish List
Item #365444
Price: $1,250
London: Arthur Barker, 1934. First London edition. Handsomely bound copy of the first London edition of Hammett’s witty detective novel, published the same year as the New York edition. Read More Item Details for The Thin Man Add to Wish List
Item #315493