American novelist (1894–1961) best known for detective and mystery classics such as the Sam Spade series (including The Maltese Falcon) and The Thin Man. Signed book: The Thin Man. Later printing. NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1934. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5 x 7.75, 259 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page, “For Sarah E. Gibbs with all good wishes, Dashiell Hammett.” Autographic condition: fine, with mild toning to signed page, and a couple of small pencil notations along top edge. Book condition: VG-/NF. Green cloth-covered boards; edges worn, with tears in cloth at corners and spine-ends; spine-edges rubbed and a bit threadbare; spine sunned; scattered discoloration to exterior; waterstain to rear at spinehead (visible on pastedown as well, but not effecting textblock); slightly shaken; interior yellowed, with two darker areas to rfeps from previously laid-in objects. Dust jacket is color a reproduction of the Alfred A. Knopf first edition jacket, in a mylar sleeve. Following the immediate success of the six-part film series based on The Thin Man, Hammett almost completely withdrew from the literary world; while he did publish a handful of screenplays, including two sequels to The Thin Man, he would never again release another novel. Exceedingly scarce in any form, this is the only signed Hammett book we have ever offered. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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