| Notes: 1944-53 printing, Toledano 045.2, binding/jacket style 8h with 309 titles on verso, 95 cent jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers, E. McKnight Kauffer jacket art. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners and a few light creases along edges, light stain on spine base. 1934 Hard Cover. ix, 267 pp. With a new introduction by the author. A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's iconic, influential, and beloved The Maltese Falcon. |