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Price: US$75000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (First Edition) Signed Firm copy with minor bump to corners and rubbing along board edges. Slight fading to spine. Dust jacket has been professionally restored. Price-clipped. In clear protective cover. First printing with publisher's Borzoi hound logo to the publication page, 1930 on both title and publication pages, and no later printings mentioned. Original grey cloth decorated in black and blue with a falcon emblem to the cover. An acknowledged classic and Dashiell Hammett's Most seminal work. housed in black leather spine slipcase, signed by author on front free end page.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Hammett, Dashiell. Maltese Falcon. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1930.
Price: US$90000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Dashiell Hammett on a typed letter laid into the book. A spectacular copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION with the First Issue dustjacket. This ORIGINAL sophisticated dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a beautiful copy in collector's condition SIGNED by the author. We buy Hammett First Editions with the ORIGINAL dustjacket.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.