Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ___Layman=C.122_____The first appearance of this Sam Spade short story, complete in this issue. _____ Also includes: . _____ Dinosaur hunter Roy Chapman Andrews contrasts the dangers of expeditions to the Gobi Desert to roaming the streets of New York. _____ A long distance bus driver provides an anecdotal insight into his life on the road. _____ The covers are moderately soiled with fraying to the bottom edge of the front cover and first leaf. _____ One illustration has been cut out of the Edison Marshall short story. _____
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The July 1932 issue of The American Magazine. Contains You Can't Put Out the Sun, an article by poet Archibald Rutledge, A Man Called Spade, a short story by Dashiell Hammett, The Knight's Errand, a short story by Octavus Roy Cohen, and others, Numerous vintage ads. Condition issues include soiling to the covers and spine, a .375" closed tear at the bottom left fore edge of the rear cover that diminishes & fades out by page 121, (2.75"), 1" loss at the top of the spine, and a 1" closed tear at the right spine hinge that starts at the end of the loss. Missing pages 67/68 (Campbell Soup & Chevrolet Automobiles ads). No stories or articles seem to be affected. A good to very good copy of a vintage magazine with a short story by a prominent and collectible author.
Seller: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$274.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Complete original single issue magazine. Vol. CXIV, no. 1. "A Man Called Spade" is complete in this issue. Front cover has a 4" x 1.5" loss to bottom edge. Else minor soil, minor general wear. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Story appears in "The American Magazine, Vol. CXIV, No. 1, July, 1932." Illustrated by Joseph Clement. First appearance of this story. Light evidence of a name label removed from lower corner of front cover, else a very good copy.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. An original issue of this uncommon magazine which containÕs the first appearance in print of Dashiell HammettÕs Sam Spade short story ÒA Man Called Spade.Ó HammettÕs story is illustrated by Joseph Clement. Paperbound. Very good lightly used copy with some small tears and creases.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. An original issue of this uncommon magazine which containÕs the first appearance in print of Dashiell HammettÕs Sam Spade short story ÒA Man Called Spade.Ó HammettÕs story is illustrated by Joseph Clement. Paperbound. Fine.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.