DASHIELL HAMMETT COLLECTION OF THE TEN DIGEST SIZE PAPERBACK ORIGINALS
Published by Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher,1943 - 1962. 1943 -1962, [New York], 1943
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
AbeBooks seller since March 3, 1999
Condition: Used
US$ 2,850.00
Quantity: 1 available
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First editions. The ten original digest size booklets of Dashiell Hammett's short stories in very good to near fine condition. The complete set is difficult to obtain today. Important mystery contributions for the Dashiell Hammett collector and for the mystery genre at large. Titles include A Man Named Thin, Woman In The Dark, Nightmare Town, Hammett Homicides, The Creeping Siamese, The Continental Op, Dead Yellow Women, The Adventures of Sam Spade, $106,000 Blood Money, and The Return of The Continental Op. Also included are later variants of two of the issued volumes: Dead Yellow Women, Jonathan Press Mystery 129, [1947] (priced 35 cents rather than 25 cents) and The Continental Op, Bestseller Magazine J40, [1949] (different wrapper design). A total of 12 volumes housed in a handsome cloth clamshell case and chemise with a red leather label on the spine and all titles stamped in gold gilt.
Seller Inventory # 45817
Bibliographic details
- Title
- DASHIELL HAMMETT COLLECTION OF THE TEN DIGEST SIZE PAPERBACK ORIGINALS
- Author
- HAMMETT, DASHIELL
- Publisher
- Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher,1943 - 1962. 1943 -1962, [New York]
- Publication year
- 1943
- Binding
- Soft cover
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Buckingham Books specializes in new, used and Rare Books dealing with Western Americana, Ephemera and Mystery. Western Americana includes Maps, Photographs, Letters, Documents, Art, and Ephemeral Material related to the History of the American West, Canada and Northern Mexico. Our Specialties include Cowboys, Cattle and Development of the Range, Mountain Men and the Fur Trade, Frontier Military and Indian Wars, Outlaws and Lawmen of the Old West, Native American History and Ethnology, Exploration, Gold Rush, Railroad, Overland, Natural History and Travel. Books in Mystery include Detective Fiction, Golden Age, Espionage, Queen's Quorum, Sherlockiana, Artwork, Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone, References and PBO. All of the books in our inventory are First Editions unless clearly stated otherwise. …
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