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RED HARVEST.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-3] 4-270 [271: publisher's data] [272-276: blank] original red cloth, front stamped in yellow and black, spine stamped in yellow and black. First edition. Author's first novel, featuring his Continental Op character, one of the earliest and most important contributions to the establishment of the hard boiled detective. "Taken as a whole, and chronologically, the novels may be seen to speculate on the way a man should deal with disorder, on the things to which he should give his allegiance. In Red Harvest, the Continental Op is motivated by what appears to be a work ethic. He finds Personville corrupt and he cleans it up for no better reason than it's his job..." - St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers (Fourth Edition), pp. 478-79. Layman A1.1.a.
RED HARVEST.
New York: Pocket Books Inc., [1943]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pocket 241. Hammett's first novel.
THE RETURN OF THE CONTINENTAL OP.
[New York]: Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher, [1945]. Small octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-127 [128], pictorial wrappers. First edition. 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.
THE RETURN OF THE CONTINENTAL OP.
[New York]: Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher, [1945]. Small octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-127 [128], pictorial wrappers. First edition. 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.
THEY CAN ONLY HANG YOU ONCE AND OTHER STORIES.
[New York]: The American Mercury / Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher, n.d. [1949]. Small octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-125 [126-128], pictorial wrappers. Second printing. Bestseller Mystery No. B131. Digest size magazine format. Originally published as THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE. Layman A11.1.b.
THE BLACK MASK.
New York: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc., 1923. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Second Story Angel" by Dashiell Hammett. The author's seventh story appearance in Black Mask, his third using his own name. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68.
PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS: THE NOVELS OF DASHIELL HAMMETT.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, [1985]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Study of each of Hammett's novels as detective fiction and literature.
THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE.
Springfield, OH: The Crowell Publishing Company, 1932. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Include the second Sam Spade short story, "Too Many Have Lived" by Dashiell Hammett. The story is illustrated by J.M. Clement. Dashiell Hammett: A Descriptive Bibliography, C-123.