May 25, 2006 - Sale 2081

Sale 2081 - Lot 132

Price Realized: $ 66,700
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
THE INSCRIBED DEDICATION COPY OF HIS FIRST BOOK HAMMETT, DASHIELL. Red Harvest. 8vo, red cloth stamped in yellow and black, slightly cocked, spine ends and tips rubbed with minor loss of cloth, tear to head of spine. Lacks (gasp!) dust jacket. Layman A1.1.a. New York: Knopf, 1929

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first edition. the dedication copy of hammett's first book, inscribed to his literary mentor, joseph shaw.