Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts

The Maltese Falcon.

HAMMETT, Dashiell.

New York: Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 267pp, (8pp ads). Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. Item #43035

Tight and quite nice later printing of #45, first published by them in 1934 but given binding and jacket design (284 titles listed on verso) most certainly of early 1940s vintage. Outstanding Edward McKnight Kauffer jacket graphics. A superb copy -- and uncommon.

Price: $100.00