Fine Books & Manuscripts

HAMMETT, Dashiell (1894–1961). Dashiell Hammett Omnibus. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1935. 8vo. Publisher’s lime green cloth stamped in orangish red; original unclipped dust jacket (rear jacket panel and lower front panel along edge in facsimile with other repairs to jacket, binding tight and clean). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of the anthology featuring Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, and The Maltese Falcon. –– [Together with:] SHAW, Joseph T., editor. The Hard–Boiled Omnibus. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1946]. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, spine titled in gilt; original unclipped dust jacket (chipping to jacket extremities). With publisher’s postcard laid-in requesting further information and if “this book has lived up to your expectations”.