Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Dashiell Hammett. Nightmare Town. Lawrence E. Spivak, New York, 1948.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Mercury Mystery No.120 in brown wraps with title illustration as a postage stamp. Book has light curl to spine, light wear along edges, pencil erasure mark at top of front panel. Pages are toned but complete with no markings in book. Four stories by Hammett collected by Ellery Queen, Nightmare Town, The Scorched Face, Albert Pastor at Home, and Corkscrew.
Seller: Rio Bound Books, San Marcos, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 128 p. Exceptional copy. Touch of sticker residue to cover.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. A Mercury Book, No. 120. Digest size magazine format, paperback original. Collects the following stories, "Nightmare Town," "The Scorched Face," "Albert Pastor at Home" and "Corkscrew." First book publication for all. The first story appeared in Argosy All Story Weekly, the second in Black Mask, the latter two in Esquire. Introduction by Ellery Queen. Hubin, p. 369. Layman A16.1. Text block age darkened, touch of edge rubbing, a nearly fine copy. (20885)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.