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HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. New York: Knopf, 1930.
8o. Original gray cloth, grayish green falcon within black single-rule frame; pictorial dust jacket (darkened, spine brittle and with tape repair on verso, head of falcon on spine panel possibly supplied, some chipping to ends of spine panel).
FIRST EDITION, in rare dust jacket. The Maltese Falcon is one of the most influential detective novels ever written. Sam Spade, investigating the murder of his partner Archer, became the personification of the American private eye. John Huston's Maltese Falcon (1941) is the most famous film adaptation, staring Humphrey Borgart as Sam Spade, Mary Astor and Peter Lorre. Layman A3.1a.
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FIRST EDITION, in rare dust jacket. The Maltese Falcon is one of the most influential detective novels ever written. Sam Spade, investigating the murder of his partner Archer, became the personification of the American private eye. John Huston's Maltese Falcon (1941) is the most famous film adaptation, staring Humphrey Borgart as Sam Spade, Mary Astor and Peter Lorre. Layman A3.1a.