?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
LACKRITZ COPY HAMMETT, DASHIELL. The Dain Curse. 8vo, original yellow cloth stamped in red and brown, skull and cross-bones motif on front cover, rear cover with Borzoi imprint, light smudging to joints and corners; pictorial dust jacket designed by F. H. Horvath, several tape repairs to verso, folds rubbed with occasional spotting, corners nicked, spine panel with short chip to head touching letters to first word in title, the foot chipped with 1 1/4 inch-square loss, unclipped; unobtrusive stains to blank margin of half-title and facing blank; LMS bookplate laid-in; preserved in custom cloth drop-back box. New York: Knopf, 1929
first edition of hammett's second book in the rare dust jacket. The Dain Curse first appeared as a serial in Black Mask magazine. Increasingly scarce on the market, with no copies in jacket appearing at auction in a decade. Provenance: The Richard Lackritz copy, his sale, Part Two (Christies NY, 24 September 2002, lot 124). Layman A2.1.a.
