Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. Modern Library, 1934.
Price: US$22.05 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Hardback, water-staining to front board and spine; fadiing to exterior page edges; binding cracked, front blank page torn; clean text. ASIN: B000EW9XHU
Seller: BookDepart, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Modern Library, New York, NY 1934. 288 pages. Moderate general wear. Has water ring from glass on rear board. Has bookplate. Size: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9. With an introduction by the author. Classics/Collectors Series::Modern Library Fiction Modern::Crime/Mystery/Suspense 6263
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
Dashiel Hammett. The Maltese Falcon. Modern Library, 1934.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Modern Library, 1934 reprint, with new introduction by the author. No dust jacket. Spine is square and tight. Clean inside and out. Minor corner and edgewear. Previous owner address sticker on lower right of inside front cover (1"x1/2").
Seller: Aviary Books, New Bedford, MA, U.S.A.
Hammett Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. Modern Library, New York, 1934.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Front hinge is loose.
Seller: Ann Open Book, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. The MALTESE FALCON, HC w/DJ. Modern Library, 1934.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: With a new introduction by the Author. C: 1929, 1930, 1934 Modern Library Edition. 5" x 7", 267 pgs. Good hardcover, fair unclipped DJ which is split by front cover and spine. Watermark on front bottom opening edge corner and back top and bottom opening edge corner of book as well as a red stain on the inside of the DJ. DJ covered in brodart archival quality cover.
Seller: Larimar Animal Books, Morristown, NJ, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon MODERN LIBRARY. MODERN LIBRARY, NEW YORK, 1934.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: pages yellowing but clean, gilt on cover and spine, spine faded, previous owner bookplate on inside of front cover DATE PUBLISHED: 1934 EDITION: 267
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Dashiell Hammett. THE MALTESE FALCON. Modern Library, New York, 1934.
Price: US$54.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1934 Pages are clean,tight,bright. Very little wear to book.D/j has light edge wear/tear.
Seller: September Books, CHURCH STRETTON, United Kingdom
Dashiell Hammett. The Maltese Falcon (a modern library book). Modern Library January 1934, 1934.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: General use wear, surface and edges rubbed with some creasing. Corners bumped and show wear. Spine is faded slightly. Pages show reader wear. Secure pages, solid binding. Missing DJ. PO name on first page. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.
Seller: The Book Garden, Bountiful, UT, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. THE MALTESE FALCON. The Modern Library, New York, 1934.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: (1934), 267pp, decorative eps, red cloth, waterstain to bottom portion of cover, affects inside of dj, but only lightly affects eps (& no text pgs), slight shelfwear to cover, some rubbing & edgewear to dj, contents clean & unmarked.
Seller: Russ States, Oil City, PA, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon (The Modern Library, No. 45). The Modern Library, 1934.
Price: US$181.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1944-53 printing, Toledano 045.2, binding/jacket style 8h with 309 titles on verso, 95 cent jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers, E. McKnight Kauffer jacket art. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners and a few light creases along edges, light stain on spine base. 1934 Hard Cover. ix, 267 pp. With a new introduction by the author. A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's iconic, influential, and beloved The Maltese Falcon.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. THE MALTESE FALCON. Modern Library, NY, 1934.
Price: US$199.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Published between 1939-1963 (Toledano 8); New Intoduction by the Author; Full-bound red cloth, gilt titles on blue fields, top edge stain gray, black pictorial dust jacket lists 292 titles; minute wear at extremities with a slight push to upper corners and spine foot, previous owner name penciled top edge rear paste-down, dj has mild to moderate wear and chipping at extremities with multiple tiny closed tears along edges, two long horizontal creases near top edge front panel, in protective Mylar covers.
Seller: HAVE BOOKS - WILL SELL, Wind Lake, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: **RARE AND COLLECTIBLE MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET** The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett with a new introduction by the author. First published by The Modern Library in 1934, this is a 1946 reprint. This is Modern Library edition number 45. The book is bound in red cloth type 8 binding with Kent end papers and a great iconic pictorial dust jacket. Book is VERY GOOD- with binding solid and tight with slight lean and shelf wear at extremities, no writing or marks, contents are clean and bright. The dust jacket is GOOD+ with loss at extremities. The cover is fairly bright and clean with an amazing graphic on the cover. 309 titles listed on the inside of dust jacket indicating a 1946 printing. 95 cent price present and perfect on inside flap. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. VERY HARD TO FIND THIS EDITION WITH A DUST JACKET! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**
Seller: The Modern Library, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon DJ GOOD. MODERN LIBRARY, NEW YORK, 1934.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: protective mylar cover over dj, first modern library edition, edges of dj creased, dj taped to inside of front and rear cover, previous owners bookplate on front end paper, text block clean DATE PUBLISHED: 1934 EDITION: 267
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. Modern Library, New York, 1934.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ML 45.2. Stated First Modern Library Edition 1934. Introduction by author copyright 1934. Price 95 cents on dust jacket flap. Unfortunately the inside of the dust jacket shows titles up through 1936, so the 1936 jacket was apparently put on the first edition book. It is the same design as the original. Rust colored flexible binding with gold titles. Spine title lightly rubbed and a crease on the spine. Red top edges with 1" fade. Green and beige jacket has a couple of tiny corner chips and two 1/4" tears. 253 titles noted on rear panel & inside jacket.
Seller: Old Algonquin Books, Arvada, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: **RARE AND COLLECTIBLE MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET** The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett with a new introduction by the author. First published by The Modern Library in 1934, this is a 1943 reprint. This is Modern Library edition number 45. The book is bound in red cloth type 8 binding with Kent end papers and a great iconic pictorial dust jacket. Book is NEAR FINE- with binding solid and tight with only slight shelf wear, bright black top stain perfect, gilt bright and nice, no writing or marks other than owners signature on inside front board, contents are clean and bright. GORGEOUS!! The dust jacket is VERY GOOD with slight chipping at extremities. It is very bright and clean with an amazing graphic on the cover. 291 titles listed on the inside of dust jacket indicating a 1943 printing. 95 cent price present and perfect on inside flap. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. VERY HARD TO FIND THIS EDITION WITH A DUST JACKET IN THIS CONDITION! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**
Seller: The Modern Library, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$378.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RARE FINE BOOK OF CLASSIC AMERICAN NOVEL: Rust Balloon Cloth; Spine #7, 225 Titles listed at back; gold torchbearer on front is leaping right; rust topstain; store sticker on back endpaper (see scan). No DJ. STORY: In this noir classic, detective Sam Spade gets more than he bargained for when he takes a case brought to him by a beautiful but secretive woman. As soon as Miss Wonderly shows up, trouble follows as Sam's partner is murdered and Sam is accosted by a man. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF ABEBOOKS EXCELLENCE.
Seller: Shepardson Bookstall, Brookline, MA, U.S.A.
HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. The Modern Library, New York, 1934.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (17cm); flexible blue cloth boards, with titling and publishers logo stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; blue-grey topstain; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; xii,267,[1] + [6]pp publisher's catalog. Wear to spine ends, sunning to spine, with a tiny tear to center of front hinge, and a faint patch of fading to upper right corner of front cover; contents clean; Very Good or better. In the correct first printing dustjacket, priced 95 cents on front flap, with rear panel and verso advertising 225 titles; spine-sunned, shelfworn, shallow losses to spine ends, several small nicks and tears, and a corresponding loss to upper right corner of front panel, costing four letters in "Hammett;" just Very Good. Hammett's masterpiece, a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone long-regarded as a high-spot of modern crime fiction, and basis for three film adaptations including the 1941 John Huston classic. LAYMAN A3.1.h.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
HAMMETT, DASHIELL.. The Maltese Falcon. New York: Modern Library, 1934, 1934.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: First Modern Library Edition; with a new introduction by the author. Very good in a dust jacket with some foxing and minor wear and tear. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$688.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE ON ABEBOOKS. VERY RARE SURVIVING COPY WITH EVEN RARER DJ. BOOK: Green balloon cloth; Spine #7; Gold leaping torchbearer on front and gold title and author on spine; Kent endpapers; light green topstain. PICTORIAL DJ covered in mylar has small chips on corners; large chip bottom spine and medium chip on top spine edge; front side seams are splitting (SEE SCANS). STORY:
Seller: Shepardson Bookstall, Brookline, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: RARE 1934 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION 1934 stated. The book is bound in green balloon cloth type 7 binding with Kent end papers. Book is only in good condition - binding solid and tight but a small gap exists between text block and cloth and fading on top and bottom spine, gilt bright on cover faded on spine, matching green topstain somewhat faded, no writing or marks, contents are clean and bright. The dust jacket is good with loss and age toning on spine. The rest of the all important dust jacket is bright and clean with an amazing graphic on the cover. 95 cent price present and bright on inside flap. 225 titles listed on the back panel indicating a 1934 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER MODERN LIBRARY FIRST EDITIONS. EVEN WITH ITS ISSUES THIS IS A GREAT COPY. **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**
Seller: The Modern Library, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1095.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Modern Library. New York. 1934. 267 pages. First Modern Library Edition stated; first printing. Toledano # 45.2 (45.1 was an Andreyev title.) Balloon cloth with magenta topstain. Light soiling to cloth on front panel Binding and hinges are sound. Previous owner's name and date neatly written on FFEP. $0.95 cents price intact on DJ flap with 225 stated on rear and inside verso. Original rare DJ with open chip at crown and front shoulder; and at heel. Small chip on upper edge on rear panel. First Modern Library Edition (stated); first printing in the highly collectible, original first state DJ with 225 titles listed. VG/G
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. The Modern Library, 1934.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated first Modern Library edition. DJ in archival cover minor toning, very light ware, internally about fine. Rust cloth, gilt lettering, red top stain.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Modern Library. New York. 1934. 267 pages. First Modern Library Edition stated; first printing. Toledano # 45.2 (45.1 was an Andreyev title.) Balloon cloth with magenta topstain. Binding and hinges are sound. 95 cents price intact on DJ rear; price on flap has a small hole over 95 cents. First state DJ with 225 copies listed on rear and interior verso. DJ shows an open chip on upper right corner, a small chip on upper rear edge, and a tiny chip at crown. First Modern Library Edition stated, first printing in the original first state DJ with 225 titles listed. Fine/VG
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Hammett Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. Modern Library, 1934.
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Semi flexible balloon covers. Pages have a touch of tanning at the edges. Cloth on spine has some lightening. A wrinkle in the cloth on the spine. Jacket has 225 books listed. 95 cents on the jacket flap. White parts of the jacket have tanned especially at the spine. Small wear at edges of jacket. The largest is a 3/8" triangular piece missing at the bottom edge of the rear panel. Wear and resulting split at top and bottom of front hinge on jacket up to 1/2". Same on rear jacket hinge but up to 1/4" No fading or rubbing. Jacket in mylar cover with the whole in a plastic bag to protect.
Seller: Indian Hills Books, Blountville, TN, U.S.A.