The Maltese Falcon - popular Dashiell Hammett - 1934 Vintage Red Hardcover Book - Modern Library Book - Detective Sam Spade Crime Thriller Novel
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett - a vintage Modern Library hardcover book edition with dust jacket. Red cloth covers with navy blue blocks & embossed gold titles on the front & spine. Grey top stain on book edge. Dust jacket is illustrated in black and white with green accent, unclipped price. In vintage condition, scuffs & abrasions to covers, tight binding, clean pages, tanned with age, erased pencil markings on first pages. Dust jacket has abrasion and short tears, tanned & colour faded. Please zoom images. Priced accordingly.
"The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask beginning with the September 1929 issue. The story is told entirely in external third-person narrative; there is no description whatever of any character's thoughts or feelings, only what they say and do, and how they look. The novel has been adapted several times for the cinema.
The main character, Sam Spade (who also appeared later in some lesser-known short stories), was a departure from Hammett's nameless detective, The Continental Op. Spade combined several features of previous detectives, notably his cold detachment, keen eye for detail, unflinching, sometimes ruthless, determination to achieve his own form of justice, and a complete lack of sentimentality. In 1990 the novel ranked 10th in Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time list by the Crime Writer's Association. Five years later in a similar list by Mystery Writers of America the novel was third." - wikipedia
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
Random House Modern Library
1934
Printed in USA
267 pages
Book Measures:
inches: 5 x 7.25 x 7/8
cm: 12.7 x 18.4 x 2.2
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