Red Harvest

Lot 77
28.09.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
Classic
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£ 16 380
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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ID 1016398
Lot 77 | Red Harvest
Valeur estimée
£ 15 000 – 25 000
Red Harvest

Dashiell Hammett

HAMMETT, Dashiell (1894-1961). Red Harvest. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929.



First edition of Hammett's first book in the very rare dust-jacket. Narrated by the Continental Op, Hammett's first novel begins with the mysterious murder of a newspaper publisher in 'Poisonville', a mining town in the American West. Red Harvest, first published in February 1929, was quickly followed by The Dain Curse that July, and The Maltese Falcon in February the following year. Red Harvest saw its second printing in March 1930, just after The Maltese Falcon appeared. This copy is in the true first state dust-jacket, with the publisher's plot synopsis on the lower panel as opposed to reviews. This state is so rare it was not seen by Hammett's bibliographer, Richard Layman, who incorrectly described the second printing jacket as the first. Layman A1.1.a.



Octavo. Title in orange and black (a few leaves with light thumb-marks). Original red cloth with yellow skull and crossbones to upper cover and stamped in black and yellow on spine (a few trivial spots on upper cover, small stains at upper edge not intruding into margins); original dust-jacket (minor repairs to folds, some light wear, a few chips to upper edge and small nicks at lower corners, lightly browned, a few thumb-marks); custom half morocco box.

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