Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon (first edition, first printing)

Alfred A. Knopf

1930

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Description

First edition, first printing of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

  • Samuel Dashiell Hammett (American).
  • New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.
  • 267 pages.
  • Octavo.
  • Bound in gray cloth with black and blue decoration with white lettering. 

Condition Report

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Missing dust jacket.

Moderate shelf wear.

Soiling to covers and spine.

Fraying to cloth around edges.

Flaps from previous jacket glued to paste-downs.

Back panel of jacket glued to front free endpaper.

Age toning and scattered soiling throughout text block.

Some separation of text block from spine, visible on verso of front free endpaper with webbing exposed.

Feature(s)

First Edition

Language

English

Subject

Novels, Modern first editions, Mystery and Detective, Literature, American Literature

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