The Adventures Of Sam Spade & Other Stories

Cleveland & New York: World Publishing Company / Tower Books, 1945. Book. Illus. by Leo Manso (dust jacket illustration). Good. Hardcover. 1st Thus.. Small octavo. Contains three detective stories starring the incomparable Sam Spade, as well as four other pieces: "The Assistant Murderer," featuring Alexander Rush, a detective "so ugly that people just naturally think he is crooked," "Night Shade,"… Read more about this item

Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, 1945. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ has code 049 in the upper corner of the front flap. Jacket is worn and tattered with several large chips missing, spine is faded and also… Read more about this item

New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, 1944. 1st Paperback Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/Near Fine. Digest Magazine. Digest Sized in wraps. Sharp first and only printing of Hammett's first anthology of mystery stories including "A Man Called Spade". With an introduction by Ellery Queen. Square, tight, and clean throughout with fairly mild page edge-toning. Light wear to edges and… Read more about this item

New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, [1944]., 1944. First edition. First edition. Digest sized paperback original. Bestseller Mystery B50. Introduction by Ellery Queen. A little minor rubbing to spine, light wear to spine ends, else near fine copy in pictorial brown wrappers. Queen Quorum 98 says, "all the Hammett books of short stories are important but without question the cornerstone… Read more about this item

[New York]: Lawarence E. Spivak, Publisher, [1944]. First edition. Age darkening to text block, two leaves of text have closed tears to fore-edges, two leaves have small chips from lower margins, very good to near fine. (6008). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Bestseller Mystery #B-50. Original wrappers, digest size format. Author's first book of short fiction.… Read more about this item

World Pub. Co, 1945-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Fair. Moderate shelf wear to covers/corners; bottom edge of covers discolored/stained. Hardcover lacking the Dust Jacket. Two previous owner's names on FFEP. One of them is my mom, Judith Cosby. :)

Cleveland: World, 1945. This is an ex-department store copy. One inch chip to bottom of front endpaper, affecting bottom of flap of jacket. Remnants of pocket from the store on rear endsheet. Dust jacket taped to book. Still, a very hard copy of this first edition to locate -- so, let's call is a… Read more about this item

New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, 1944. First Edition. First Printing. Digest-sized octavo (19cm); original pictorial card wrappers; 125,[3]pp. Modest wear to joints and wrapper extremities, subtle tanning to text edges; Very Good+. A volume collecting seven short stories - three of them featuring Sam Spade. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone and Queen's Quorum title. LAYMAN A11.1.a; HUBIN, p.190.

Must Have Books, 2021-04-27. Paperback. Used:Good.

Must Have Books, 2021-04-27. Paperback. Used: Good.

World/ Tower Books, 1945. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. In red cloth. Second Tower Books Edition. Very light edge wear to jacket. Sticker shadow to front flap of jacket. A nice copy of a fragile book..

World Pub. Co. Used - Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Introduction by Ellery Queen. (Detectives, Mystery, Short Stories) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Paperback. Very Good.

Hardback. New.

New York: L.E. Spivak. Original wrappers, Digest sized paperback original. Bestseller Mystery B50. Author's first book of short fiction. Introduction by Ellery Queen. Wear to spine and extremities, chip, previous owner's name. In archival cover. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1944.

Lawrence E. Spivak, 1944-01-01. Paperback. Good. . Cover shows minor wear. Pages are tanned.

The World Publishing Company, 1946. Hard Cover - Good - No dust jacket if issued - Other than light edge wear book is unmarked and tight.. Hard Cover. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

The World Publishing Co, 1945. hardback. about very good condition (some browning to the pages) in a somewhat faded dust jacket.

Paperback / softback. New.