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Cassell & Co. Ltd, London, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Black coloured boards with silver coloured titles to the back strip. Plaintext dustwrapper with black and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear panel. Dashiell Hammett short story omnibus, Introduced and edited by Lillian Hellman. The stories are:- The Gutting of Couffignal, Fly Paper, The Scorched Face, This Kings Business, The Gatewood Caper, Dead Yellow Women, Corkscrew, Tulip, The Big Knockover & $106,000 Blood Money. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges with a little bumping of the book corners. Some rubbing of the book panels with age toning of the text block edges and pages. Fine foxing to the top textblock edge. Some creasing of the dustwrapper edges with a small chip to the top right-hand corner of the act strip. The laminate along the front edge of the front panel has started to lift. Handling marks and slight… Read More

Cassell. Good in Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. 0 pages .

London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1966. Ten stories; edited and with an introduction by Lillian Hellman; one nickel sized chip from top front of DW, and one 2"' oblong by 1/2" chip from top rear of DW; previous owners small sticker on front paste down, and four digit number penned on ffep.; 355pp.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. VG++/VG Only - Price-Clipped.

London: Cassell, 1966. Thick octavo, pp xxiv, 355, a tiny bruise to the bottom edge of the last few pages, otherwise very clean internally, the front endpaper faintly creased, black cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, it is slightly faded on its spine.. Cloth. Good/Slightly faded.

London, Cassell 1966.. xxii+356pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. Gift inscription on ffe., otherwise a fine copy.. First UK collected edition.

London: Cassell, 1950 Comprising the four main crime titles and four short stories. Black cloth titled in gilt on spine. Tight and square, light wear to covers, unmarked internally. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London : Cassell & Co., (1966). First British edition, originally published in America earlier the same year as "The Big Knockover". Eight Continental Op short stories, the novelette "The Big Knockover", and a chapter from the unfinished novel, "Tulip" - none of which had previously appeared in hardback form. Edited and introduced by his widow Lillian Hellman (1905-1984). A review copy, with the publisher's slips loosely inserted. Demy 8vo (22cm). (xxii),356,[ii]pp. Original black boards, lettered across spine in silver; top edge a little spotted; a few slight marks, but a very good copy in the original red, white and black dust-jacket - lightly rubbed, a touch sunned, slightly nicked, and a little marked on lower panel.

Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1935. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Cassell& Company, 1966. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine copy In like Jacket Without Wear First Edition Beautiful Copy..

London: Cassell & Co. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1950. First thus. Hardcover. DJ and boards show shelf wear, Dj shows tears, chipping and creasing. Light foxing present on endpapers and flaps. ; A tight solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; A Crime Connoisseur Book; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 955 pages; The book contains the five Hammett classic mysteries: The Thin Man, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Dain Curse and Red Harvest - complete and unabridged as well as four short stories: House Dick, Dead Yellow Women, The Golden Horseshoe and Who Killed Bob Teal? These short stories have appeared in digest form previously. .

THE DASHIELL HAMMETT OMNIBUS, Cassell, 1950, first edition., g/vg in worn and chipped dust-wrapper. Collects all the authors 5 novels plus 4 stories published here for the first time in book format.

London: Cassell, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. First edition. A pristine, virtually as new example in equally fine, bright crisp, unfaded dust jacket. Hardcover. xxi+355 pp. Superb collection of works by creator of the modern suspense novel, prefaced by a moving and sympathetic personal memoir by Hamett's close friend Lillian Hellman.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Lacks jacket. Spine faded, front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1935 Hard Cover. 270, [4], 272, [4], 267, [3] pp. 8vo. Three stories by the mystery author famous for creating detective Sam Spade. Includes: Red Harvest; The Dain Curse; The Maltese Falcon.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1935. Published August 12, 1935 stated on copyright page. Green boards with red lettering and stamping to spine and front board. Spine ends frayed, small section at bottom of front board peeled, light soiling, bumped tips with spine lmoderately sunned. Jacket is professional facsimilie of first that is bright and fresh and without flaw. No markings on interior. Textblock tight and square. With jacket it is an attractive copy. In mylar. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cassell & Company, Ltd.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth first edition is in near fine condition. Unclipped jacket shows wear along edges, at points, and at spine ends. Square, solid copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Cassell, London., 1950. First edition thus. Octavo. 955 pages.Spine a little rubbed at tail. Near fine in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper nicked, rubbed and creased at edges.

London: Cassell, 1950. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First printing. A 955 page collection of novels and short stories by Dashiell Hammett including "The Thin Man, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Dain Curse, Red Harvest and four short stories". Original price in pounds present on lower front corner of front flap. Book appears to be unread. Dustjacket has light expert repair to corners and spine ends. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box..

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935. Reissue. Hardcover. fine/good. Hardcover in orange cloth boldly lettered in black. 267 pp. Reissue, published the same year as the Knopf edition. Contains "Red Harvest", "The Dain Curse", and "The Maltese Falcon". Fine, bright example, binding firm, offsetting to the endpapers, usual embrowning to the pages. In the original pictorial dust jacket featuring the same elegantly suited fellow that appeared on the jacket of "The Thin Man". Short closed tear top left front panel, narrow scrape with some loss to the front gutter fold and some wear about the edges and spine ends. Very scarce in dust jacket in either edition.

London, Toronto, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington: Cassell & Co. Ltd, [1950]. First edition. Mild wear to cloth edges, light foxing to end papers, a very good copy in an about very good dust jacket with edge wear, chips to spine ends with loss, chip along upper right rear edge. Uncommon. (24658). Octavo, cloth. Includes the author's five novels, THE THIN MAN, THE MALTESE FALCON, THE GLASS KEY, THE DAIN CURSE, RED HARVEST and four short stories which feature the Continental Op. First hardcover publications for the short stories (they do not appear in an omnibus edition published earlier by Knopf). Hubin, p. 369. Layman, Dashiell Hammett: A Descriptive Bibliography, AA 3.a.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1935. Nice copy of first printing containing his first three novels with Published August 12, 1935 on copyrigt page. Green boards with orange lettering and design is lightly sunned on spine and has one lightly frayed tip. Orange topstain still bright. Unmarked, tight and square. Scarce in any condition but truly so in this condition. Jacket is a professionally made one with no flaws and protected in transparent mylar. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus to Near Fine/Fine (Facsimile Dust Jacket). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.