Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Front cover and first third of the pages have small chips to the lower outer corners. Spine has slight edge wear. Pages are slightly browned, heavier to the margins. ; Approx. 5 3/8" wide by 7 1/2". ; 128 pages
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Softcover protected in plastic sleeve. Red pictorial covers with black and white lettering. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1945. 127 pages. In fair condition. Writing in ink on rear cover. Covers have some light staining, mostly along edges, which are also creased. Rear cover is chipped along edges. Binding is secure. Pages are toned, with some light water marks along the edges of a few pages -- no extensive water damage, though. A few pages with dog-eared corners. Pages are free of any writing or highlighting -- certainly in good reading condition. Please email with questions or to request photos -- it sounds a bit worse than it looks.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Small octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-127 [128], pictorial wrappers. Jonathan Press No. J17. Digest size magazine format. Collects the following stories; The Whosis Kid, The Gutting of Couffignal, Death and Company, One Hour and The Tenth Clue. First book publication for all but the third story. Introduction by Ellery Queen. Hubin, p. 369. Layman A13.1. Covers quite rubbed, a good copy. (24418)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Return of the Continental Op. Lawrence E. Spivak, (New York), 1945.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Digest size paperback. Printed wrappers. Tiny chip at corner of two pages and front wrap, else a very good copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 126 p. Sound clean unmarked copy.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Small octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-127 [128], pictorial wrappers. Jonathan Press No. J17. Digest size magazine format. Collects the following stories; The Whosis Kid, The Gutting of Couffignal, Death and Company, One Hour and The Tenth Clue. First book publication for all but the third story. Introduction by Ellery Queen. Hubin, p. 369. Layman A13.1. Age darkening to text block, light edge rubbing, some age darkening to front cover, ring stain to front cover, a very good copy. (20882)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. Very Good paperback original, a little foxing along top edge of front wrap. Nice shape overall.
Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$187.89 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., orig. printed wrappers. Spine very slightly darkened with a touch of rubbing o/w fine. Layman A13a.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada