Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$86.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 7.5 x 5", green cloth, vp, covers rubbed, extremities bumped and fraying, spine sunned, eps toned and soiled; a well-read copy of the FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING THUS ("One-Volume Edition, Published August 12, 1935").
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Dashiell Hammett. Omnibus. Alfred A Knopf, 1935.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine hardcover. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior. Omnibus includes Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, and The Maltese Falcon.
Seller: Tall Stories Book & Print Gallery, ROCK HILL, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Original green cloth, titles in orange, very good, a few pages a little rought, but no writing or bookplates. "One volume edition published August 12, 1935." Scarcer than one would think.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$171.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Published August 12, 1935 stated on copyright page. Green boards with red lettering and stamping to spine and front board. Spine ends frayed, small section at bottom of front board peeled, light soiling, bumped tips with spine lmoderately sunned. Jacket is professional facsimilie of first that is bright and fresh and without flaw. No markings on interior. Textblock tight and square. With jacket it is an attractive copy. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$405.00 + shipping
Description: Nice copy of first printing containing his first three novels with Published August 12, 1935 on copyrigt page. Green boards with orange lettering and design is lightly sunned on spine and has one lightly frayed tip. Orange topstain still bright. Unmarked, tight and square. Scarce in any condition but truly so in this condition. Jacket is a professionally made one with no flaws and protected in transparent mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1935, this is the first edition of the anthology containing The Dain Curse, Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon. In publisher's green cloth, lettered-decorated in red. A near fine example of the book with some very faint spotting along the foredge and a prior owner's signature. Dust jacket very good with chipping to the spine ends and the tips. There is a bit of paper loss, roughly the size of a postage stamp, to the upper forecorner of the jacket's front panel.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition of this Omnibus. Bright green cloth book; endpapers and edges lightly foxed, else a fine, remarkable book in near fine, bright jacket, with only a bit of wear to spine ends. Scarce thus.
Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No edition or printing statement. Published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, who originally published these three novels separately, then collected them into an omnibus edition in 1935. A Fine copy in deep orange cloth stamped in black, rich black topstain, in a Near Fine orange, grey white and black dustwrapper (with the photo of Hammett on the front panel), price-clipped, unfaded, with trace wear to spine-ends. (Price was torn out of the top edge of the front flap.) 270pp./272pp./267pp. Paginated from the original separate editions. A beautiful copy with vibrant rich colors, with a clean text and endpapers, appears unread. It's impossible to overestimate the importance of these novels to the whole noir tradition, literature and film. Q11212
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.