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Hammett, Dashiell. The Glass Key. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Hammett's classic hard boiled mystery about a mobster, a crooked politician, and murder. Basis for the 1935 movie starring George Raft and Edward Arnold, and the 1942 movie starring Alan Ladd and Brian Donlevy. Stated April, 1931, first and second printings before publication. Ex-library with stamps to the rear end papers. This is a reading copy only, boards stained and worn with tears and fraying to the corners and spine ends. Front hinge broken with the end paper missing, opening directly to the half title page. Rear hinge loose, page 115 detached and laid in. Jacket flaps glued to the pastedowns, front flap has no price and references the jacket photograph courtesy of Paramount, so it could have been married to a Grosset & Dunlap jacket.
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.
Dashiell Hammett. The Glass Key. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Price: US$66.79 + shipping
Description: US film adaptations 1935 and 1942. Radio adaptation with Orson Welles (1939). Major influence on Miller's Crossing (1990) by the Coen Brothers. Very good. 4th Printing. Not available in UK., First. Dust jacket: No dust jacket.
Seller: The Small Library Company, London, United Kingdom
Dashiell Hammett. The Glass Key. Alfred Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A solid copy of the May 1931 4th printing, following the April 1931 1st, 2nd and 3rd printings. Tight and VG in its russet, pictorial cloth, with pronounced offsetting at the gutters. Boards clean, as well as the text. A very presentable copy. Lacking the extremely scarce dustjacket.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. THE GLASS KEY. Alfred A. Knopf: NY, 1931.
Price: US$143.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 7.75 x 5", pict light green cloth, 282pp, covers heavily worn, extremities badly bumped and fraying, spine ends torn, spine holed and torn near bottom, inner hinges cracked, pp toned and used; a well read copy of the FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (NAP). The British edition pre-dated the American edition. SWAF.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Glass Key. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); jade green cloth, with titling, rule, and decorations stamped in maroon and dark green on spine and covers; dark brown topstain; [viii],282,[2]pp. Worn, binding slightly shaken, topstain dulled, cloth a bit faded, foxed, and lightly soiled, with some minor board exposure, an abrasion to lower front pastedown, and a small pictorial booksellers ticket to lower front endpaper; half of rear endpaper missing, with two long tears to the remainder; Fair to Good. Hammett's fourth novel, set in a nameless city modeled on Baltimore, MD, where he grew up. "Like Personville in Red Harvest, the city is controlled by crooked politicians in league with various mobster factions; but in The Glass Key Hammett gives us an insider's view of the corruption and in fact creates a corrupt political henchman as his protagonist" (Pronzini & Muller, 1001 Midnights, p.335). First serialized in four parts in Black Mask (1930), then published in London prior to publication in the U.S., the book served as the basis for two notable film adaptations: the 1935 Frank Tuttle picture starring George Raft, and Stuart Heisler's 1942 film noir starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, and Brian Donlevy. LAYMAN A4.2.a.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. THE GLASS KEY [third printing]. Alfred A. Knopf: NY, 1931.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 7.5 x 5", pict cloth, 282pp, covers rubbed, spine ends bumped, extremities a little worn, spine darkened, pp toned, sm bookstore sticker (Byron in Detroit) on front fly else a nice copy of the Third Printing "before publication"
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell.. The Glass Key.. NY. Alfred Knopf. 1931., 1931.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. A good plus copy bound in finely woven gray cloth and bordered in red with drawing of a key on the front boards. Red diamond decorations to the spine are bright Boards are uniformly soiled and foxed, especially along the length of the spine edges.Some binder's glue residue on the front pasted-down along the gutter. Very clean throughout; printed on creamy paper and very good plus internally with a name in ink at the top of p. 57. A handsome rebinding candidate in leather except for the name in ink.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell:. The Glass Key.. New York/London, Alfred A. Knopf,, 1931.
Price: US$256.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (8),282 Seiten. Erste Ausgabe. First Edition. "First, second and third printings before publication." Auf hinterem Einbanddeckel das Signet "Borzoi Books". Hinterer Einbanddeckel etwas fleckig, sonst guter Zustand. Beiliegend die Karte der "Vagabond Books" - Buchhandlung, spezialisiert auf "Detective Fiction", Los Angeles. Back cover slightly stained, otherwise good condition. No dust jacket. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450
Seller: Antiquariat Neue Kritik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Hammett, Dashiell. The Glass Key. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 282pp. Orange cloth boards, decorative elements stamped in blue and black. Black key on front board. Binding tight, faint spine lean, corners square. Very slight foxing to front and rear endpapers. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked throughout. Orange topstain to page ends. Crisp facsimile dust jacket. Copyright page notes first and second printings before publication, and cites April 1931 as publication date. A nicely preserved copy of Hammett's classic, from early in the year of publication.
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell.. The Glass Key.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Third Printing of the First Edition. About Near Fine in dull orange cloth, orange-y brown topstain, backgammon motif on spine, key motif on front cover, lacking the dustwrapper. Spine slightly darkened, front board lower point rubbed, text and endpapers clean and unmarked. 282pp. Fine consolation copy. Q12660
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. The Glass Key. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: About Good, lacking the jacket. Grey cloth, generally soiled, rubbed to the boards at the bottom edge, bumped at the corners. Square, bound with a red top stain and some reading wear, hinges loose, clean internally. Hammett's novel of Ned Beaumont and his investigation into the death of a senator's son, the inspiration of many adaptations as well as the Coen Brothers film Miller's Crossing.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. Glass Key. ALFRED A. KNOPF, NY, 1931.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: New York Alfred A. Knopf London on title page, spine torn frayed at top/bottom of spine and corners, covers badly stained, spine cracked, some page corners missing DATE PUBLISHED: 1931 EDITION: 232
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell.. The Glass Key.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Fourth Printing, one month after the first. A beautiful Fine copy in orange cloth stamped in blue and black, orange topstain, lacking the dustwrapper. 282pp. Very faint shadow on front pastedown probably from bookplate. Hammett's fourth novel with Knopf, and the basis of two Hollywood adaptations, in 1935 and 1942. Uncommonly nice copy. Q11408
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. THE GLASS KEY. Alfred A. Knopf, London and New York, 1931.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Correct first edition, first issue, of this novel, published January, 1931; the American edition was not published until April of 1931. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume. Filmed several times. A poor copy, text sound, evidence of label removal from front free end paper, slight spine lean, blue covers show unevenness to color, rubbing and some soiling, edges show rubbing, wear to corners, spine shows wear to ends with tears to both top and bottom, some loss to cloth at top of spine, cloth splitting along rear spine edge, title and author lettering still present. A filler copy as an example of the correct first and possibly a candidate for a custom binding. Scarce. (9990)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. The Glass Key. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing of the author's fourth novel. Bound in the publisher's orange cloth, with a key image stamped in black to the front board, with steel blue and black stamped decorations to the spine. A very good copy with a slight lean to spine, spine ends lightly worn with a touch of fraying to the upper spine, cloth lightly faded, contemporary former owner inscription from 1931 to the front endpaper. Unlike his previous three novels, Hammett's classic crime noir novel The Glass Key does not feature a detective as the main character. However, the novel's protagonist is perhaps Hammett's most hard-boiled; the text features Ned Beaumont, a morally questionable political fixer for the crooked construction magnate Paul Madvig, in a plot that involves a complicated murder case that exposes multiple layers of corruption and betrayal. Said to be one of Hammett's favorites of his own novels, The Glass Key is unusual in that it provides the reader with enough clues that he or she could conceivably solve the mystery before the author reveals the true perpetrator. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
HAMMETT, DASHIELL. THE GLASS KEY. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American Edition. Signature of noted Canadian historian , Edgar McInnis to the front free endpaper.Spine ends lightly frayed , spine slightly browned; Date stamps to rear free endpaper but no other evidence of any library use( no pockets, no other stamps, no glue residue etc.) Very Good+ , lacking the dust jacket. The author's fourth book, basis for two films; one in 1935 and the other featuring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd, in 1942. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. ** See our new cheaper postal rates to the USA and abroad.**
Seller: THE USUAL SUSPECTS (IOBA), St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Dashiell Hammett. The Glass Key. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: A serviceable copy of the 1931 1st edition of Hammett's 4th book. VG- in its decorative beige cloth, with light staining at the panels and small split at the front inner hinge (which is still perfectly sturdy). 12mo, 282 pgs.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. The Glass Key. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. In Very Good condition. Clean text, though pages age toned and show light wear. Small stain to title page, small bookseller tag to rear paste down. Binding lightly shaken. Bottom edge of boards, and top edges near corners are rubbed through with fraying to the cloth. Spine ends worn. Cloth toned at spine and edged of boards. Rear board shows light staining.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. The Glass Key (first printing). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$775.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1931. 282 pages. First edition, first printing. 1931 is the last date on the copyright page, with no later printings noted, AND 1931 on the title page, too. Book is tight; binding and hinges are strong and sound. Pages and endpapers are bright and clean. Burgundy topstain matching border design on front panel. Cloth panels show minor light soiling with light sunning along edges. Light shelf-rubbing along crown of backstrip. Innocuous, textural blindstamp of previous owner's address on upper right corner of FFEP. A sound, attractive, VG first edition, first printing of Hammett's classic.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
HAMMETT, Dashiell.. The Glass Key.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: 282 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in facsimile dust jacket. First edition. Quarter-sized area of damage and a closed tear to the rear endpaper; slight offsetting from clippings to front pastedown and free endpaper; otherwise a sharp, bright copy with some of the usual browning to the spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. The Glass Key.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Hammett's personal favorite novel. Octavo, original cloth. Advance review copy, with the slip pasted to the front free endpaper, in very good condition, corner clipped, name to the front pastedown. Rare as an advance copy. âThe Glass Key spins a more ambitious and unusual web whose threads are male friendship, male loyalty and male betrayal, and considers the ultimate treachery â" the murder of a son by his father. In Ned Beaumont â" principled, forlorn, afflicted with an uneasy worldliness and the ability to understand the meaner motives and ambitions of friends, and tubercular â" Hammett produced his nearest self-portraitâ (Diane Johnson, Dashiell Hammett: A Life, 1987, pp. 86-7). It was first published as a serial in Black Mask magazine in 1930, then was collected in 1931 (in London; the American edition followed 3 months later) It tells the story of a gambler and racketeer, Ned Beaumont, whose devotion to a crooked political boss, Paul Madvig, leads him to investigate the murder of a local senator's son as a potential gang war brews. Hammett dedicated the novel to his onetime lover Nell Martin. There have been two film adaptations (1935 and 1942) of the novel. A radio adaptation starring Orson Welles aired on March 10, 1939, as part of his Campbell Playhouse program. The book was also a major influence on the Coen brothers' 1990 film Miller's Crossing, about a gambler who is a right-hand man to a corrupt political boss and their involvement in a brewing gang war.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell.. The Glass Key.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing. A Near Fine copy in light greyish-green cloth stamped in dark green and maroon (backgammon motif on spine panel), top edge stained brown, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. An impressive copy but for one tiny ash burn to upper spine fold penetrating through to front gutter. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked, minimal wear or discoloration. Presented in new facsimile dustwrapper. 282pp. Was adapted by Hollywood in a feature [Paramount, 1935, with George Raft, Edward Arnold, Claire Dodd, etc.]. Q12659
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Glass Key. Alfred A. Knopf, London, 1931.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First English Edition (precedes American printing). Original blue cloth. Novel of gambler and racketeer, Ned Beaumont, whose devotion to Paul Madvig, a crooked political boss, leads him to investigate the murder of a local senator's son as a potential gang war brews. Very Good copy lacking jacket, bit of darkening at spine, modest shelf wear.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. The Glass Key. Alfred A. Knopf, London, 1931.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First British edition, precedes the American edition. Bound in publisher's original deep blue cloth stamped in red and white, with the Knopf imprint at the base of the spine (later issues list Cassell). Very Good with lean to spine, toning to cloth at spine and edges, large but light staining to rear cover. Evidence of bookplate removal to front paste down and pages toned. A critically-acclaimed crime novel first serialized in Black Mask magazine, made into a film twice.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. THE GLASS KEY. Alfred A. Knopf, London and New York, 1931.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Correct first edition, first issue, of this novel, published January, 1931; the American edition was not published until April of 1931. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume. Filmed several times. A very good copy, remnant of label removal at top of front paste-down, some dustiness and spotting to edges, some mild edge rubbing, blue of cloth faded on spine. Scarce. (10167)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
HAMMETT, Dashiell.. The Glass Key.. London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931, 1931.
Price: US$1908.03 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form, first impression, first issue, preceding the US edition by three months. Hammett's classic crime-fiction novel has inspired the films of 1935 and 1942, Orson Welles's radio play of 1939, and the Glass Key award for Scandinavian crime literature. The trophy for the award, founded in 1992 and still running today, consists of an actual glass key. This copy has Knopf's binding and title page, denoting first issue. Based in New York, Knopf first published the work in London during his attempts to enter the UK publishing market. The enterprise failed and led in part to the remaindering of the title with Cassell's cancelled title page and binding. The Glass Key was initially serialized the previous year in Black Mask magazine. Layman A4.1. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in red, white key on spine and front cover, publisher's red device on rear cover, top edge blue. Housed in custom red cloth folding case with black spine label. Title page printed in black and green. Rear pastedown with bookseller's ticket of B. T. Batsford. Slight lean to sunned spine, very mild offsetting to endpapers, contents clean. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Dashiell Hammett. THE GLASS KEY. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$3299.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in a Good+ dust jacket. Light sunning on spine. Small open tears on panel corners and spine crown and heel. Light shelfwear and rubbing on panel and spine side edges. Small closed tear on bottom rear panel. 1 inch closed tear on rear panel top corner.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Hammett, Samuel Dashiell (1894-1961). The Glass Key. Alfred A Knopf, New York and London, 1931.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [8]+282+[1, blank]+[1, note on type] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's light green cloth, spine and front stamped in dark red and green, dark green broken key ornament at front board, dark green publisher's stamp at rear; top edge of text block stained purplish-red; original pictorial, first issue dust jacket with description of the book printed on front flap. First edition. The Glass Key is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett. It was first published as a serial in Black Mask magazine in 1930, then was collected in 1931 (in London; the American edition followed 3 months later). It tells the story of a gambler and racketeer, Ned Beaumont, whose devotion to Paul Madvig, a crooked political boss, leads him to investigate the murder of a local senator's son as a potential gang war brews. Hammett dedicated the novel to his onetime lover Nell Martin. There have been two US film adaptations (1935 and 1942) of the novel. A radio adaptation starring Orson Welles aired on March 10, 1939, as part of his Campbell Playhouse series. The book was also a major influence on the Coen brothers' 1990 film Miller's Crossing, about a gambler who is a right-hand man to a corrupt political boss and their involvement in a brewing gang war. (Wikipedia) Condition: Spine ends starting to fray; back-strip and board edges tanned; moderate soiling to boards; slight wear to bottom edges of boards; corners bumped and rubbed. End papers and text block softly browned with age, some internal soiling. Jacket rubbed and worn, chipping at spine and flap fold ends; folds deeply creased; faint foxing at verso else better than good in like jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. The Glass Key. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$4450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: No DJ. Previous owners name.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Glass Key. Alfred A. Knopf, London, 1931.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, preceding the American edition, and first issue, with the Knopf imprint (later issues have the Cassell imprint). Attractive engraved bookplate on the front pastedown, slightly cocked, and with a small, not too obtrusive stain on the front board, otherwise near fine, lacking the rare dustwrapper. A very attractive copy of the author's fourth book. This true first, English edition is exceptionally uncommon, and flat out rare in the jacket (which this copy lacks). Knopf published in the U.K. for only a few years, and generally produced very small editions.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Dashiell Hammett. The Glass Key (First Edition). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. The author's uncommon fourth book, basis for two films: one in 1935, starring Edward Arnold, George Raft, and Claire Dodd, and one in 1942, starring Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, and Alan Ladd. Lightly toned at the board extremities, else About Near Fine in an attractive, Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is lightly faded and rubbed overall, with a few short closed tears. In a custom maroon quarter-leather clamshell box. The Dark Page I: 1940-1949, p. 134.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
HAMMETT, Dashiell.. The Glass Key.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Description: 282 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in a restored dust jacket. Preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding box. First edition. Contemporary pencil ownership signature to front free endpaper. There is some light browning to the cloth and some slight browning to the pastedowns from the dust jacket flaps. The jacket has some neat professional restoration to the joints and extremities of the backstrip.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. THE GLASS KEY. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); jade green cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in burgundy and dark green on spine and front cover; dark brown topstain; dustjacket; [viii],282,[2]pp. Base of spine gently nudged, with a hint of sunning to upper board edges, and light wear to lower corners and lower edge of front board, resulting in some minute board exposure; contents fresh, with the cloth bright, lacking the usual soiling and discoloration; Near Fine. In the correct first printing dustjacket; spine gently sunned, light wear to joints and extremities, with a few tiny tears and nicks to crown and corners, and shallow loss to base of spine, not affecting lettering or design; an unrestored, Very Good+ example. Attractive copy of Hammett's fourth novel. "Like Personville in Red Harvest, the city is controlled by crooked politicians in league with various mobster factions; but in The Glass Key Hammett gives us an insider's view of the corruption and in fact creates a corrupt political henchman as his protagonist" (Pronzini & Muller, p.335). Widely regarded as one of Hammett's finest works, The Glass Key was serialized in the pages of Black Mask between March-June, 1930; Hammett would later settle down and revise the novel for Knopf, who published it first in London in January, 1931, and then in New York in April, 1931. Filmed twice, most notably Stuart Heisler's 1942 film noir starring Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, and Alan Ladd. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone title. Layman A4.2.a.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
HAMMETT, DASHIELL. THE GLASS KEY. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931., New York, 1931.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Description: First U. S. edition, preceded by the U. K. edition. A near fine copy in a bright dust jacket with light professional restoration to the spine ends and corners. Paul Madvig is a crooked political boss. Ned Beaumont, his lieutenant and ?fixer,? comes upon the dead body of Taylor Henry, son of a prominent senator with whom Madvig has chosen to join forces. Madvig hopes to marry the senator's daughter, while the senator hopes Madvig's political organization can put him over the top in the next election. To complicate matters, some think that Madvig himself murdered young Henry . Madvig?s daughter, Opal, who was in love with Henry, among them. And someone has been sending anonymous letters to the DA, to Opal, to Senator Henry, and to the newspapers suggesting Madvig?s involvement and calling for action. The basis for two films: one in 1935, starring Edward Arnold, George Raft, and Claire Dodd, and one in 1942, starring Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, and Alan Ladd. Housed in a quarter leather and cloth clamshell case with titles stamped in gilt on the spine.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Glass Key. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$12000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition (preceded by the British edition) in first issue dustwapper. The usual light sunning on the boards, a near fine copy in an attractive very good or better wrapper with light sunning on the spine, a couple of small creases and light edgewear. The author's uncommon fourth book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. The Glass Key. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing published 1931. A wonderful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or tears with minor wear to the edges. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in great shape . The binding is tight and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy housed in a custom clamshell box. We buy Hammett First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.