Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$23.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 7.5 x 5.5", wraps, 125pp + ads, covers worn and creased, extremities chipped and torn, pp toned.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A collection of 7 stores. Digest sized: 5 1/2 in. x 7 ½ in. Soft Cover. 125 pp. Bestseller Mystery No. B50. Dusting, fading, and soiling to covers and edges; some chipping to the spine. Pages have browned with age. Small closed tear on front panel. Back panel has a crease at lower left corner. In a plastic bag.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Adventures of Sam Spade. Lawrence E. Spivak, New York, 1944.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 125 pages. Paperback digest original. Bestseller Mystery, No. B50. Introduction by Ellery Queen. Brown wraps. Has tanning of the textblock, light edgewear, 1/2" tear on front edge of cover and spine head, green crayon marks on inside of both front and rear covers
Seller: Zoar Books & Gallery, Rowe, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition under this title. Reprint of "The Adventures Of Sam Spade" published a year earlier. Near fine copy in digest-size paperback wrappers.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Digest-sized octavo (19cm); original pictorial card wrappers; 125,[3]pp. Modest wear to joints and wrapper extremities, subtle tanning to text edges; Very Good+. A volume collecting seven short stories - three of them featuring Sam Spade. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone and Queen's Quorum title. LAYMAN A11.1.a; HUBIN, p.190.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories. Lawrence E. Spivak, 1944.
Price: US$166.82 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover shows minor wear. Pages are tanned.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bestseller Mystery #B-50. Paperback original. Digest format. The author's first book of short fiction. Collects seven fictions, three featuring Sam Spade. Introduction by Ellery Queen. QQ 98. Text block age-darkened, two leaves of text have closed tears at fore-edges, two others have small chips from lower margins, a very good to near fine copy. (#83122)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Digest sized paperback original. Bestseller Mystery B50. Introduction by Ellery Queen. A little minor rubbing to spine, light wear to spine ends, else near fine copy in pictorial brown wrappers. Queen Quorum 98 says, "all the Hammett books of short stories are important but without question the cornerstone is THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE." Seven short stories. QUEEN'S QUORUM 98.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Digest Magazine. Digest Sized in wraps. Sharp first and only printing of Hammett's first anthology of mystery stories including "A Man Called Spade". With an introduction by Ellery Queen. Square, tight, and clean throughout with fairly mild page edge-toning. Light wear to edges and rubbing to hinges. Small dog-ears on the bottom tips. Still fresh and bright with no chipping or tears. From the library of noted author and Sherlockian, Vincent Starrett, with his bookplate tipped in to inside front cover and his signature on the title page. A very pretty collectable copy.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.