Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Hammett, Dashiell. Secret Agent X - 9 Book 2. David McKay, PA, 1934.
Price: US$98.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Softcover has cover wear and interior is clean thus good plus.
Seller: Uncommon Books, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.
Dashiell Hammett. Secret Agent X - 9 Book Two. David McKay Company, 1934.
Price: US$127.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illustrated front cover darkened, rubbed around edges and bumped on lower front corner the image replicated at rear with less browning and less wear though a 3 mm crease across lower corner; the plain blue spine a little rubbed and a 1 cm split on top hinge. Internally name and date on rear of fron cover; light soiling to title page with a 4 cm diagonal crease across lower front corner; contents respectable but with some fingering to margins, particularly on the preliminaries. Pp, 120. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Softcover with pictorial covers. Original red cloth spine faded and a bit frayed. The cover (printed in black, orange and brown) is spiderwebbed with creases. Oblong format 8 x 7.5 inches. Pages toned from age and use. Cartoon panels throughout. 80 pages. Title page is missing. First page is page 3, which seems to be the first page of the story. The first three pages and the final cartoon are colored in with crayon. A few closed tears. Scarce in any condition. Hammett had already achieved some success with his novels by the time he teamed up with Flash Gordon artist Alex Raymond to produce X-9 for King Syndicates. The cartoon ran in various forms for more than 60 years. Please email to request photos.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Dashiell Hammett. SECRET AGENT X-9 BOOK TWO. DAVID McKAY COMPANY, Philadelphia, 1934.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Heavy creasing to cover with tear half the way down from the top on the front (archivally taped inside) and tape at title page tear (first page) and inside rear cover. Heavy soil staining to the first few pages. And some scattered (fairly well done) coloring of the pictures near the front & scattered in a few other places throughout. Corner page chip at 70 and 71 and some mild red pencil or ink numbers at inside rear cover. About 7-1/2 x 8 oblong. Scarce in poor condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Rose City Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Hammett,Dashiell.. Secret Agent X-9. Book Two.. David McKay Company., Philadelphia., 1934.
Price: US$190.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st thus. Ob large 8vo. 120pp. Comic strips. Untidy ownership inscription inside the front cover. Company name & address stamped on title page (bookseller's?). Apart from the odd stain the contents are VG. The covers are sl. rubbed & creased but complete and quite respectable. A scarce early comic strip by the author of "the Maltese Falcon".
Seller: Robert F Butterworth, Lytham St.Annes, LANCS, United Kingdom
HAMMETT, Dashiell.. Secret Agent X-9. Book Two.. David McKay Company, Philadelphia, 1934.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 120 pp. Illustrations by Alex Raymond (comic strips). Square 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards illustrated in color. First edition. Light edgewear; slight sunning to wrappers.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. Secret Agent X-9 [Book 2]. David McKay Co., Philadelphia, PA, 1934.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stiff color illus. paperboard wraps, royal blue cloth binding. Both covers show several creases, most relatively light, with two more prominent vertical creases to front cover and one to rear. Edges and corners typically rubbed. Diagonal crease and separation to bottom rear corner has been mended at some point with clear tape mounted on the inside of the cover. Department store toy dept. "Compliments" stamp on upper front cover and on main title, a few ink notations on upper front cover (signature above title banner, "and so forth" inked beneath title in small letters). 120 pp. Scarce in any condition, this copy, despite mentioned faults, better than many we've seen. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell & Raymond, Alex. SECRET AGENT X-9 ( Book 2 ). David McKay, 1934.
Price: US$319.00 + shipping
Description: SECRET AGENT X-9 (Book 2), D. McKay, 1934, first edition, cloth spine renewed, irregular shaped hole (about the size of a nickel) missing from the rear panel as well as the last page never entering the text, tiny hole through most of the pages, else a good to very good copy in full color pictorial wraps. Not the best copy, but still a collectable one as this book now seldom turns up in the market place. Illustrated by Alex Raymond.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
HAMMETT, DASHIELL. Secret Agent X-9. David McKay, Philadelphia, 1934.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book Two. Original full color pictorial pasteboard wrappers with original blue cloth spine. Black and white illustrations, four panels per page, allby Alex Raymond. Wrappers in very good shape with only minor creasing and very minor wear. The second of two volumes of the syndicated cartoon strip by Hammett with illustrations by Raymond, who was also the illustrator of Flash Gordon. Very Good.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 120 pages, 12mo. Very Scarce. Book Two. Illustrations by Alex Raymond. Printed in the United States of America. Color illustrated soft wraps: at bottom right corner of front cover in orange circle: Book 2. Blue taped spine. Shelfwear: heavy scuffing along edges and covers, heavy creases and wrinkling on covers. Light tanning with some light foxing along page edges. Tightly bound with clean and crisp pages. No marks. Volume is in Good condition.
Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. Secret Agent X-9. David McKay Co., Philadelphia, 1934.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book #2, published by David McKay Co., Philadelphia 1934. Soft cover - edges slightly scuffed - front and back colored, with unfaded illustrations. All 120 pp in good condition with no tears or writing. Overall a avery nice collector's copy. Comes with a tastefully crafted folding box.
Seller: MCTbooks, Sandy, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Beginning in 1931 The News Syndicate's "Dick Tracy" comic strip soared in popularity among newspaper readers. _____ All the other strip wholesalers scrambled to create similar crime dramas. _____ King Features, controlled by The Hearst Company, had "Dan Dunn: Secret Operative 48" but felt compelled to generate another competitive strip as well. _____ They were delighted when the well-established hard-boiled writer Dashiell Hammett agreed to create stories for the new strip. _____ King selected Alex "Flash Gordon" Raymond, already in their stable, to provide the artwork. _____ This team worked until 1935, when Hammett turned over the story work to Leslie Charteris. _____ We offer the complete two-volume set of the anthologies issued in the 1930's, they would not be re-issued until the 1970's. _____ Both are bound in full-color, cardboard covers, stapled through front to back, with a cloth spine glued over. _____ This was a binding format cheap to produce and difficult to preserve. _____ This set shows all the problems inherent in binding style and all the enthusiasms of their juvenile readers _____ . _____ BOOK ONE; 1934/nd; 80 pp.; VG-; Both covers show considerable crazing to the the illustration, probably from having been bent back for reading. _____ The top inch of the red cloth spine has peeled down, both head & foot of the cloth are frayed. _____ The lower inch of the front forecorner is missing from the front cover and first two pages. Layman=A7.1. _____ . _____ BOOK TWO; 1934/nd; 120 pp.; VG- Both covers show considerable crazing to the the illustration, probably from having been bent back for reading. _____ The head & foot of the blue cloth spine are frayed. _____ The front cover has a messy 2" tear up the front panel. _____ It has also nearly detached from "paper fatigue" at the hinge, now reinforced on the inside. _____ There are also a pair of 1" tears to the bottom of the title page. Layman=A8.1. [kwA_ 1st Ed. ]
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
HAMMETT, Dashiell.. Secret Agent X-9. Book One].. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1934]., 1934.
Price: US$777.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: oblong 8vo. 80. illus. throughout by Alex Raymond. cloth-backed pictorial wrs. (very light wear to extremities of wrs., bit of creasing to corners of front wr., minor spotting to outer margin of a few leaves). Very good copy. First Edition. Much scarcer than Book Two.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Publisher's illustrated stiff wrappers with cloth spine; a little cover creasing and minor wear; better than usual. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
HAMMETT, DASHIELL. Secret Agent X-9 - Books One & Two. Philadelphia David McKay 1934, 1934.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First Editions, First Printings. Two volumes. Very good copies with light general wear. Contains all the stories written by Dashiell Hammett who created the daily cartoon strip series as a rival to the greatly popular Dick Tracy. Illustrated by the great Alex Raymond, who drew and created Flash Gordon. HammettÕs creation involves a character in his tradition of using a seemingly nameless detective. X-9 was a nameless agent who worked for a nameless agency. X-9 used the name "Dexter" in the first story ("It's not my name, but it'll do"). Enclosed in a custom cloth clamshell box.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.