HAMMETT | The Maltese Falcon, 1930

From the Library of Christian Heuer

HAMMETT, DASHIELL

The Maltese Falcon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930

8vo, FIRST EDITION, title-page printed in black and dark teal, original greay cloth, spine blocked in black and blue, upper board stamped with falcon design in blue and ruled in black, lower board with Borzoi Books imprint in lower right corner, top edge blue, lacking dust-jacket, collector's folding black morocco-backed box

FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S THIRD NOVEL.

Hammett described his central character of Sam Spade as "what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been and in their cockier moments thought they approached. For your private detective does not...want to be an erudite solver of riddles in the Sherlock Holmes manner; he wants to be a hard and shifty fellow, able to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with..."

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