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New York: Dell, 1944. Soft cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Dell 452. Map back. Spine has slght wear but decent above average. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

S. Good.

dell mapback, , (Reprints Dell 411), . 452, very good , creases (COLLECTION OF 5 STORIES), paperback,

New York, NY, USA.: Dell Books., 1950. Book. Illus. by Robert Stanley Painted Cover Art !. Good to Very Good.. Soft cover. 2nd NEW Revised Edition By Publisher.. 192 pages. & 4 page introduction "Meet Sam Spade," by Ellery Queen."She screamed asShade dashed up the stairs." >> Wear & creasing to covers; Staining to spine; Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

NY: Dell, 1945. [1st printing, 1945] No. 90. Mapback with blue endpages. Cover art is uncredited. Creasing; heavy edgewear; mark on cover in pencil; tanning.. SingleIssueMagazine. Good to Very Good-.

Dell. Soft Cover. Good +. A must for the Hammett completist. This near new copy of the Dell mapbook still has strong binding, clean text. Super copy.

New York: Dell, 1944. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Mass market paperback. Vertical crease on the cover, light edgewear, very good. Dell Mapback 452, a reprint of Dell Mapback 90 with different cover art.

NY: Dell, 1950. Dell Mapback No. 411. Paperback Reissue of Dell Mapback No. 90 with a differnent cover. small 8vo, pp. 192. A good clean copy. 5 stories with an intro by Ellery Queen.

[DASHIELL HAMMETT]. A MAN CALLED SPADE. Dell Publishing, New York, 1950. Second Edition. Dell Mapback #411 early reprint of Dell Mapback #90 with new cover art. Condition: VG+. Appears unread, classic iconic "Dell Keyhole" logo endpapers, original aqua color A.E.S. (All Edges Stained) pages, rubbing to spine edges, trivial water staining, scuffs near upper edge of last few pages, creases to covers mostly near spine, micro-chips to extremities, pages are clean, bright, unmarked and binding tight. A collection of five of the author's hard-boiled pulp detective fiction, only three short stories published during the author's lifetime featuring protagonist Sam Spade first published in the pulp magazine The American Magazine in 1932 with introduction by Ellery Queen. Cover art by Robert Stanley and mapback by Ruth Belew. Uncommon vintage paperback original Dell Mapback from a major author, collectible. 192 pgs. 16mo.

New York: Dell Publishing Company , 1944 A Solid Little Book, Pages Aged But Very Legible. Illustrated Card Covers With A Picture Of An Ace Or Spades On Front And A Crime Scene Map On The Rear Card Cover. No Marks Or Inscriptions. A Wwii Book With Notes On The Copyright Page Asking That Books Be Left At Post Offices From Where They Would Be Forwarded To The Troops. A Nice Collectors Piece.

Dell Books. New York: Dell Publishing Co. , 1945 . 90 good- very good , creases Cover by Otto Storch or Gerald Gregg. paperback,

Dell Books. New York: Dell Publishing Co. , 1945 first edition . 90 very good -fine, reading crease Cover by Otto Storch or Gerald Gregg. paperback,

Springfield, OH: Crowell, 1932. First appearance of the Dashiell Hammett short story, "A Man Called Spade," in the July 1932 issue of The American Magazine, a monthly publication featuring fiction, articles, and illustrations. Hammett's story is illustrated by Joseph Clement, and the author receives a front cover credit. The first of three magazine appearances of private detective protagonist Spade. Spade made his debut in Hammett's 1930 novel, "The Maltese Falcon," and made three subsequent magazine appearances in short stories. The three Sam Spade short stories were first collected in the 1944 digest, "The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories," published by Mercury. Other contributors to the issue include Octavus Roy Cohen, Beverly Smith, Archibald Rutledge, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Everett Rhodes Castle, and more, with art by Saul Tepper, Weldon Trench, C. Peter Helck, Harvey Dunn, and more. Cover art by John E. Sheridan. Approximately 8.5. x 11.5 inches, perfect bound. Very Good, with… Read More

New York, NY: The American Magazine. Very Good+. 1932. Magazine. B&W Illustrations; This magazine includes the first ever appearance of Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's famous stoic detective, in "A Man Called Spade". The magazine is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers of the magazine have some spots of ground-in dirt and beginning toning to the white edges. There is some beginning nicking and edge wear to the spine ends and corners of the magazine covers. The text pages are clean and bright throughout. This article has been illustrated by Joseph Clement. Also included in the magazine are: If We Split Up All the Money in the Country by William Bacon Bailey, There are no Bad Times for Good Ideas by Beverly Smith, It's Safer in the Wilds by Roy Chapman Andrews, They Call Him Crazy by Charles B. Parmer, You Can't Put Out the Sun by Archibald Rutledge, What Can you Do to Make Money by Edgar C. Wheeler, He Changed the Map of a State by… Read More

NY: Crowell Publishing. Very Good-. 1932. First Edition. Softcover. Complete original single issue magazine. Vol. CXIV, no. 1. "A Man Called Spade" is complete in this issue. Front cover has a 4" x 1.5" loss to bottom edge. Else minor soil, minor general wear. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

New York and Springfield, OH: Crowell, 1932. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Joseph Clement, illustrator. Very good in original wrappers with light rubbing, a tiny corner chip, and brief wear on the spine extremities.

[New York: The Crowell Publishing Company, 1932]., 1932. First edition. First edition. Story appears in "The American Magazine, Vol. CXIV, No. 1, July, 1932." Illustrated by Joseph Clement. First appearance of this story. Light evidence of a name label removed from lower corner of front cover, else a very good copy.

New York: American Magazine [and] Collier's Weekly, 1932. First Edition. Wrappers. Very good. 3 vols. 1st appearances in print, anywhere, of the only 3 Sam Spade short stories that Hammett ever had published (following his Spade novel The Maltese Falcon, 1930). All 3 are illustrated by Joseph Clement. The first 2 are not scarce, the 3rd is. These magazines precede the 1st printing of the 3 stories in a book edition (The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories, 1944) by 12 years and that was followed by 245 Sam Spade radio shows (30 minutes each) written by anonymous others from 1946-1950. 1) A Man Called Spade, in The American Magazine (not the common book), Vol. 114, No. 1 (July 1932). 2) Too Many Have Lived, in The American Magazine (not the common book), Vol. 114, No. 4 (October 1932). 3) They Can Only Hang You Once, in Collier's Weekly, Vol. 90, No. 21 (November 1932).