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HAMMETT, Dashiell.
A complete set of twelve Hammet short story paperback originals.
Comprising: $106,000 Blood Money(1943); The Adventures of Sam Spade (1944); The Continental Op (1945); Return of the Continental Op (1945); Hammett Homicides (1946); Dead Yellow Women (1947); Nightmare Town (1948); The Big Knock-Over (1948); They Can Only Hang You Once (1949); Creeping Siamese (1950); Women in the Dark (1951); A Man Named Thin (1962).
Publisher: Spivak-bestseller Mystery; Mercury Mystery 1943–62
Stock code: 74096
Price: £2,750 Currency Conversion
First editions, first impressions, including the first printings of the reissues of the first two volumes in the series (The Big Knock-Over, a reissue of $106,000 Blood Money, and They Can Only Hang You Once, a reissue of The Adventures of Sam Spade).
12 volumes, octavo. Original colour wrappers. Housed in a blue cloth folding case. $106,000 Blood Money with blind stamp of owner's name to top edge of upper wrapper and title page. A Man Named Thin with two library ink stamps to the titlepage and a library card envelope to the inner side of the lower cover. Wrappers lightly rubbed, contents very slightly toned. An excellent set.
