The Maltese Falcon by Hammett, Dashiell - 1930

New York: Dodd Mead, 1930. SCARCE in the Arthur Hawkins Art Deco dustjacket( the American 1st in jacket is scarcer than the British.). Peach-colored cloth boards printed in green and black, and with Art Deco printed endpages and pastedowns. Small, neatly-printed prior owner name in ink front endpage. Top edge lightly faded. Dustjacket is darkened at spine, and has chips at head and heels of spine and at flap folds. . First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good.

[Los Angeles: Universal Pictures], 30 June 1942.. [1],107 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only of salmon colored stock. Bradbound. Pencil name on title leaf ("Milton Feld," a Universal producer at the time), a few annotations in color pencil, very good or better. A first draft of this contribution to the Holmes screen canon. Released in April of 1943, SHERLOCK HOLMES IN WASHINGTON was directed by Roy William Neill, and starred Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The association of Lynn Riggs, the Oklahoma-born, part-Cherokee gay playwright and poet with this project is very interesting. It is one of at least two of the Universal Holmes titles that Riggs worked on, the other being an (until recently) uncredited revised draft of the screenplay for SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VOICE OF TERROR (also dated 1942). Riggs is most widely known for his play, GREEN GROW THE LILACS, which was immensely popular as the musical adaptation, OKLAHOMA!, but little has been written about his years as… Read More

New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1940. First Edition. Very Good/Good. First edition, first printing. Publisher's black cloth binding stamped in turquoise. Very Good with light fading at spine ends, two scrapes to top edge of textblock affecting margins, toning to pages. In a heavily restored dust jacket.

1037 pages with frontispiece, drawings, illustrations, photographs and plates. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with black lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. Signed sheet by the author laid in. (Firsts: Volume 14, number 9, page 32. First omnibus edition. This omnibus edition, published after Garden, collects three of the earlier titles: Scarab, Dragon and Kennel Murder Cases. More importantly it also contains several essential articles, both by and about Willard Huntington Wright, including his "Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories." Also included are several "portraits" of Philo Vance from the serialization of the novels in periodicals, and a motion picture studio portrait of William Powell as Vance. this copy has a inscribed leaflet: To Harry F Crouss Yours for bigger and better crimes! S S Van Dine. Condition: Inscribed sheet by the author laid in. Jacket with minor rubbing to edges, few scratches else near fine in like jacket.

5 volumes with movie poster. 533 pages; 569 pages; 602 pages; x+334+[3 ad] pages with two page maps; 368 pages with 4 maps. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's red, blue, black and brown cloth bindings with silver and gilt lettering to spines in original pictorial jackets. Translated by Reg Keeland and George Goulding. Signed by David Lagercrantz on title. First British editions The Girl in the Spider's Web limited to 1000 which this is number 217. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye limited to 500 copies which this is number 284. Original poster for the first movie in Swedish. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in Swedish: Män som hatar kvinnor; in English: Men Who Hate Women) is a psychological thriller novel by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson (1954–2004), which was published posthumously in 2005 to become an international bestseller. It is the first book of the Millennium series. Millennium is a series of best-selling and award-winning… Read More

New York: Dodd Mead, 1930. SCARCE in the Arthur Hawkins Art Deco dustjacket( the American 1st in jacket is scarcer than the British.). Peach-colored cloth boards printed in green and black, and with Art Deco printed endpages and pastedowns. Small, neatly-printed prior owner name in ink front endpage. Top edge lightly faded. Dustjacket is darkened at spine, and has chips at head and heels of spine and at flap folds. . First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good.

[Los Angeles: Universal Pictures], 30 June 1942.. [1],107 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only of salmon colored stock. Bradbound. Pencil name on title leaf ("Milton Feld," a Universal producer at the time), a few annotations in color pencil, very good or better. A first draft of this contribution to the Holmes screen canon. Released in April of 1943, SHERLOCK HOLMES IN WASHINGTON was directed by Roy William Neill, and starred Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The association of Lynn Riggs, the Oklahoma-born, part-Cherokee gay playwright and poet with this project is very interesting. It is one of at least two of the Universal Holmes titles that Riggs worked on, the other being an (until recently) uncredited revised draft of the screenplay for SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VOICE OF TERROR (also dated 1942). Riggs is most widely known for his play, GREEN GROW THE LILACS, which was immensely popular as the musical adaptation, OKLAHOMA!, but little has been written about his years as… Read More

New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1940. First Edition. Very Good/Good. First edition, first printing. Publisher's black cloth binding stamped in turquoise. Very Good with light fading at spine ends, two scrapes to top edge of textblock affecting margins, toning to pages. In a heavily restored dust jacket.

1037 pages with frontispiece, drawings, illustrations, photographs and plates. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with black lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. Signed sheet by the author laid in. (Firsts: Volume 14, number 9, page 32. First omnibus edition. This omnibus edition, published after Garden, collects three of the earlier titles: Scarab, Dragon and Kennel Murder Cases. More importantly it also contains several essential articles, both by and about Willard Huntington Wright, including his "Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories." Also included are several "portraits" of Philo Vance from the serialization of the novels in periodicals, and a motion picture studio portrait of William Powell as Vance. this copy has a inscribed leaflet: To Harry F Crouss Yours for bigger and better crimes! S S Van Dine. Condition: Inscribed sheet by the author laid in. Jacket with minor rubbing to edges, few scratches else near fine in like jacket.

5 volumes with movie poster. 533 pages; 569 pages; 602 pages; x+334+[3 ad] pages with two page maps; 368 pages with 4 maps. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's red, blue, black and brown cloth bindings with silver and gilt lettering to spines in original pictorial jackets. Translated by Reg Keeland and George Goulding. Signed by David Lagercrantz on title. First British editions The Girl in the Spider's Web limited to 1000 which this is number 217. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye limited to 500 copies which this is number 284. Original poster for the first movie in Swedish. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in Swedish: Män som hatar kvinnor; in English: Men Who Hate Women) is a psychological thriller novel by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson (1954–2004), which was published posthumously in 2005 to become an international bestseller. It is the first book of the Millennium series. Millennium is a series of best-selling and award-winning… Read More