Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 161

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
HAMMETT, DASHIELL. The Glass Key. 8vo, original light green cloth with key design on front cover, Borzoi device on rear cover, spine decorated in red and blue, light occasional toning to extremities; pictorial dust-jacket, spine panel and flaps with tape repairs on verso, also on recto at head and foot of spine panel extending into rear panel, chips to spine panel tips and fold corners not affecting letters, few scratches, unclipped; internally clean; LMS bookplate laid-in; preserved in custom cloth drop-back case. New York: Knopf, 1931

Additional Details

first american edition. Published three months after the first English edition. The fourth novel by "the most important member of the hard-boiled school of fiction" (Steinbrunner/Penzler, p.186). Layman A.4.2a; Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.