Dain Curse
by Hammett, Dashiell
Dashiell Samuel Hammett was born in St. Mary’s County. He grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Hammett left school at the age of fourteen and held several kinds of jobs thereafter—messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, operator, and stevedore, finally becoming an operative for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency. Sleuthing suited young Hammett, but World War I intervened, interrupting his work and injuring his health. When Sergeant Hammett was discharged from the last of several hospitals, he resumed detective work. He soon turned to writing, and in the late 1920s Hammett became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. In The Maltese Falcon (1930) he first introduced his famous private eye, Sam Spade. The Thin Man (1932) offered another immortal sleuth, Nick Charles. Red Harvest (1929), The Dain Curse (1929), and The Glass Key (1931) are among his most successful novels. During World War II, Hammett again served as sergeant in the Army, this time for more than two years, most of which he spent in the Aleutians. Hammett’s later life was marked in part by ill health, alcoholism, a period of imprisonment related to his alleged membership in the Communist Party, and by his long-time companion, the author Lillian Hellman, with whom he had a very volatile relationship. His attempt at autobiographical fiction survives in the story “Tulip,” which is contained in the posthumous collection The Big Knockover (1966, edited by Lillian Hellman). Another volume of his stories, The Continental Op (1974, edited by Stephen Marcus), introduced the final Hammett character: the “Op,” a nameless detective (or “operative”) who displays little of his personality, making him a classic tough guy in the hard-boiled mold—a bit like Hammett himself.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1929. First edition in book form, first printing. First edition in book form, first printing. Publisher's original yellow cloth with titles, decoration and borders in red and brown to the upper board and spine, in the F. H. Horvath illustrated dustwrapper. Brown top-stain as issued. An excellent near fine copy, the binding firm, the… Read more about this item Item Price
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NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, spine sunned and slightly cocked, bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown, owner bookplate on front pastedown.. 1929. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Yellow decorated cloth. Hammett's second published novel, a hard-boiled mystery featuring his detective The Continental Op. All first printing points as per Layman A2.1.a. ;… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition, First Printing, First State. Hardcover. Octavo, 272 pages. In Good plus condition, lacking dust jacket. Bound in yellow cloth with red and black patterns and yellow text on black background on spine. Boards have mild edge and shelf wear. Binding has slight cocking to spine. Textblock has significant impressions from writing… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. The detective known only as "The Continental Op" investigates a diamond theft from the San Franciscan Leggett family, the supposed victims of a curse said to inflict sudden, violent deaths on those in their vicinity. Very good to near fine with only minor soiling and edge wear. A nice looking copy… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. First state, with "dopped in" on line 19 of page 260. Very Good. Slight lean to spine, light soiling with a few spots and small stains to cloth. Light edge wear. Rubbing to spine. Light edge wear. Area of wear to front free… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Permabooks, 1961. Book. Illus. by Cover by Harry Bennett. Very Good. Paperback. First PermaBooks Printing. permaBooks M 4198, very light edge wear and hint of slant to spine, a bright clean, copy. Item Price
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New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1945. Paperback. Pocket Book 295. Fourth printing from September 1945. Basis for the 1978 Robert W. Lenski movie featuring Tom Bower and James Coburn. Two very faint creases to corners. A near fine copy. ; Small octavo.
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New York, London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. Small inked number at the upper left corner of the front free endpaper. Just a hint of dust soiling to cloth, a square, tight, clean, very good copy. A very presentable copy. No dust jacket. (#151298) (16847). Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-3] 4-272 [273: colophon] [274-278: blank] [note: the first… Read more about this item Item Price
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NY: Knopf, 1929. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Book has cover soiling, slightly bumped corners, book plate has been removed on the front fixed and fep, may have been ex library thus fair. Dj is facsimile. !st issue with dopped on page 260 line 19. Priced to permit restoration. Author's 2nd book. . Item Price
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. [viii], 272 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with brown and red stamping, black topstain. Very Good, dampstaining to rear board, small wormhole in fore edge not effecting any text, bookplate on paste down. The author's second novel, which was first serialized in Black Mask. Item Price
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First Black Widow Thriller edition of this stand alone mystery novel. Light edge wear. No dustjacket. In very good condition. Item Price
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New York: Vintage Books. Near Fine. (1929) (1957) 1972. Mass Market Paperback. No spine crease.. Cover Art. 213 pages. The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Random House, 1972. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. 213 [2]pp. Mass market paperback. Age-toned pages with creases on the spine, very good. Item Price
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New York, New York: Dell, 1968. First Thus . Mass Market Paperback. Fair. Stated First Dell Printing (First Thus). Spine Creases. Book Store Stamp On The First Page. Lightly Sunned Spine. 1668 With A Price Of 50 Cents.
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The Dain Curse
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London: Pan Books. Very Good. 1975. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Light reading creases, light edge and shelf wear, some foxing to inside covers, endpapers, and edges of reading block. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. ; 192 pages; One by one, those closest to Miss Gabriel Dain Leggett meet violent, hideous deaths.… Read more about this item Item Price
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1946. Erstausgabe in der Reihe (First issued as a Black Widow Thriller), New York, Knopf (= A Black Widow Thriller), 1946, 8°, 272 S., original Leineneinband mit Deckelblindprägung, die Rückenbeschriftung etwas verblast, Vorderdeckel unten mit drei winzigen Flecklein, sonst altersgemäß schönes, sauberes Exemplar (prez) Should your order's weight exceed 1kg, we shall need to message you, to recalculate the… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE DAIN CURSE. (Filmed as: ''PRIVATE EYE'': James Coburn Starring Martin Poll's CBS TV Mini-Series ) ( Vintage Book # V-624 )
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USA: Vintage Books, 1972. Book. Illus. by Alan Reingold Painted Cover.. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition By This Publisher. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.. 213 pages. >> "The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Dain Curse (Murder Room)
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The Dain Curse
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New York: Vintage, 1972. Softcover. Very Good. Very good in wrappers, a paperback. Pages brown. Pen on top corner on front endpaper. Back cover brown. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. Item Price
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The Dain Curse
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New York, NY: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1989. Trade paperback. Very good.. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. Item Price
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