The Maltese Falcon by Hammett, Dashiell - 1930

London: Collins, 1940 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original bright red cloth on boards. Book has no writing or damage. DJ missing small bits of word "at" on front cover and word "death" at head of backstrip. DJ torn 2 inches at bottoms of both joints and across upper right corner. Not repaired. Original price 8/3 on lower flap. Eight friends usually get together for darts, but tonight they join in an experiment, following which one of the party is no longer able to play. 284 pp. plus ads. Tiny bookshop sticker..

Garden City, NY: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, 1934. First US Edition. Hardcover. 329pp. Black cloth stamped in yellow on the front panel and the spine panel, top edge stained yellow. The seventh book featuring Fu Manchu. Name and date on front free endpaper else a bright, fine copy in good+ dustjacket with long, closed tear and creases to front panel and several old mends to the verso. In Bleiler, 1978, p. 170. In Hubin, 1994, p. 696. ; Octavo.

Maclehose Press. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. 2008. Hardback. Near Fine. First UK Edition. First Print. Very collectible copy, excellent addition to your collection. Dust jacket is protected with a Mylar cover. Books are packed and shipped in boxes.

273 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with white lettering to spine over blue boards in original jacket. Signed with a reduced reproduction of the movie poster and Signature cards of three of the movie actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelly Winters and Lillian Gish. First edition.One of 1000 copies only specially autographed by the author for presentation to friends of the author and publisher. Issued without a dust jacket this one has the addition of a special dust jacket with advance reviews from booksellers and publisher on the back of the jacket.The Night of the Hunter is a 1953 thriller novel by American author Davis Grubb. The book was a national bestseller and was voted a finalist for the 1955 National Book Award. Murderous ex-convict Harry Powell misrepresents himself as a prison chaplain upon his release from prison. Acting on a story told to him by his now-dead cellmate, "Reverend" Powell cons the cellmate's widow into marrying him in hopes that her… Read More

1037 pages with frontispiece, drawings, illustrations, photographs and plates. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with black lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. Signed sheet by the author laid in. (Firsts: Volume 14, number 9, page 32. First omnibus edition. This omnibus edition, published after Garden, collects three of the earlier titles: Scarab, Dragon and Kennel Murder Cases. More importantly it also contains several essential articles, both by and about Willard Huntington Wright, including his "Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories." Also included are several "portraits" of Philo Vance from the serialization of the novels in periodicals, and a motion picture studio portrait of William Powell as Vance. this copy has a inscribed leaflet: To Harry F Crouss Yours for bigger and better crimes! S S Van Dine. Condition: Inscribed sheet by the author laid in. Jacket with minor rubbing to edges, few scratches else near fine in like jacket.

London: Collins, 1940 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original bright red cloth on boards. Book has no writing or damage. DJ missing small bits of word "at" on front cover and word "death" at head of backstrip. DJ torn 2 inches at bottoms of both joints and across upper right corner. Not repaired. Original price 8/3 on lower flap. Eight friends usually get together for darts, but tonight they join in an experiment, following which one of the party is no longer able to play. 284 pp. plus ads. Tiny bookshop sticker..

London: Victor Gollancz, Inc., 1934. First Edition 1st Printing. Black Cloth. Very Good Book/Fine. Frontispiece. 351 Pp. Black Cloth Stamped In Red. First Edition. Internally Bright And Clean, Hinges Solid, Red Spine Lettering Bright, Fraying Along Top Edge Of The Spine With A Few Points Of Fraying On Bottom Spine Edge But Without Loss To Top Edge Or Bottom Edge Of Spine Height, Boards Clean And Without Other Fraying. With The Original Yellow Dust Jacket Printed In Black, Front Flap Without Printing, 3 Ads On Rear Flap, Ad For Anthony Adverse On Rear Panel With "Publication Date: January 8Th 1934" At Top, And Comment By Noel Coward At Bottom. Dj Restored By A Conservator To New, Bright Condition. [Dj Was Worn, The Spine And The Flap Folds Browned; The Front Panel Was Detached From The Spine Along The Front Spine Fold; The Entire Bottom 1" Of The Spine, With The Publisher's Name And Part Of The Publisher's Logo, Was Lacking, Although Part Of The Gollancz Logo Remained; There… Read More

Garden City, NY: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, 1934. First US Edition. Hardcover. 329pp. Black cloth stamped in yellow on the front panel and the spine panel, top edge stained yellow. The seventh book featuring Fu Manchu. Name and date on front free endpaper else a bright, fine copy in good+ dustjacket with long, closed tear and creases to front panel and several old mends to the verso. In Bleiler, 1978, p. 170. In Hubin, 1994, p. 696. ; Octavo.

273 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with white lettering to spine over blue boards in original jacket. Signed with a reduced reproduction of the movie poster and Signature cards of three of the movie actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelly Winters and Lillian Gish. First edition.One of 1000 copies only specially autographed by the author for presentation to friends of the author and publisher. Issued without a dust jacket this one has the addition of a special dust jacket with advance reviews from booksellers and publisher on the back of the jacket.The Night of the Hunter is a 1953 thriller novel by American author Davis Grubb. The book was a national bestseller and was voted a finalist for the 1955 National Book Award. Murderous ex-convict Harry Powell misrepresents himself as a prison chaplain upon his release from prison. Acting on a story told to him by his now-dead cellmate, "Reverend" Powell cons the cellmate's widow into marrying him in hopes that her… Read More

1037 pages with frontispiece, drawings, illustrations, photographs and plates. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with black lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. Signed sheet by the author laid in. (Firsts: Volume 14, number 9, page 32. First omnibus edition. This omnibus edition, published after Garden, collects three of the earlier titles: Scarab, Dragon and Kennel Murder Cases. More importantly it also contains several essential articles, both by and about Willard Huntington Wright, including his "Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories." Also included are several "portraits" of Philo Vance from the serialization of the novels in periodicals, and a motion picture studio portrait of William Powell as Vance. this copy has a inscribed leaflet: To Harry F Crouss Yours for bigger and better crimes! S S Van Dine. Condition: Inscribed sheet by the author laid in. Jacket with minor rubbing to edges, few scratches else near fine in like jacket.