A Man Called Spade by Dashiell Hammett (28 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Paperback. Text unmarked. Covers show edge wear with creases and soiling.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

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

PARIS, [Sir Francis Drake] S. F. D. Éditeur [100 F] - s.d. (1985?), (1946) - Br.19x12x1,8 cm - Couverture blanche au premier plat vert et noir titré en vert et d'une photo centrale noir et blanc (semblable à la collection 'Nuits Blanches'); 186 et (6) pages. Froissure angulaire au 2e plat. Bon état général. Recueil de 7 nouvelles, parues de 1924 à 1934, établi par Ellery Queen. Édition pirate, reprise du titre paru dans la collection 'Nuits Blanches' à 'La Nouvelle Édition', 1re série N° 4, 1946. Français Livres.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. George Salter (cover) (illustrator). First Thus. A collection of Hammett's short stories, three Sam Spade stories and four others from the mid 1940s. Mercury Mystery no 131. The stories are: Sam Spade - "They Can Only Hang You Once", "Too Many Have Lived" & "A Man Called Spade"; others - "The Assistant Murderer" ("First Aide to Murder"), "Nightshade", "The Judge Laughed Last" ("The New Racket") & "His Brother's Keeper". Light edge wear with rubbing to the spine hinges. 1" closed tear at the bottom left spine hinge and smaller ones at the top. Small dog ears to the top corners. .875" dark strip along the left of the front cover at the spine. Small scorch spots to the fore edge of the title page and the back cover. Stamp ("Jan 4 A.M.") just below the title on the front cover. Light browning to the pages. A good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dell Mapback #411, 1947. Second Dell printing. Very Good condition. Creases along the spine seams. Rubbing along the spine edges. Rubs to the corners and spine tips. Mild age toning to the pages. Cover art by Robert Stanley.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 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.

Paperback. 90 good- very good , creases Cover by Otto Storch or Gerald Gregg. paperback,

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. NEAR FINE condition in NEAR FINE covers. NY. Dell Books. SOFTCOVER. 1944. MAPBACK No. 411. Reprint. Bound in brown pictorial paper wraps. Square and tight. Light edge wear to covers, see images. Introduction by Ellery Queen. Stored in Archival sleeve.

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

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Ed Thus. First paperback ed. thus. Fair condition, over all wear, cover creases, moisture stain to spine edges, spine wear. Dell #452. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dell #411 with map on back clean no marks very light wear.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Mass market paperback. Small hole on rear cover with corresponding holes in the margin of pages in the rear, creases and rubbing on wrappers, very good. Dell Mapback 411, a reprint of Dell Mapback 90 with different cover art.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Mass market paperback. Moderate edgewear and creases, a couple stains on wrappers, very good. Dell Mapback 452, a reprint of Dell Mapback 90 with different cover art.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition Thus. Presumed first Dell printing, mass market paperback with map back and all edges treated teal, book has a lean to the binding, light pulls starting to the hinges and at the copyright page, shallow spots of soiling to the tail and fore edge of several pages, light bumps to the spine ends and corners, reading creases to the hinges, a thin vertical crease to the front cover, and mild shelfwear to the cover edges, otherwise a solid, bright Good copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. Paperback. First Printing. Slight lean, date stamp on first page and bottom edge of textblock; light nick to front joint, else very good with an uncreased spine.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. "She screamed as Spade dashed up the stairs." Cover art of a man and woman going up a flight of stairs. Map on rear, "Max Bliss' apartment scene of Murder." Light rubbing and toning and minor wear to the edges and corners. 411. Housed in a protective plastic sleeve. Photos upon request. International shipping billed at cost.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 192 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Joseph Clement, illustrator (illustrator). First Edition. Very good in original wrappers with light rubbing, a tiny corner chip, and brief wear on the spine extremities.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A Man Called Spade and Other Stories. Hammett, Dashiell. Dell, #411 1944. 192p. Map Back, paperback, covers bumped/scuffed/creased, binding tight, text clean/unmarked 25.00.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Covers creased.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Thus. Cover art by Otto Storch or Gerald Gregg. A Good copy of this Dell mapback (Dell Mystery No. 90), in original wraps (some creasing and wear to spine and covers). Housed in a beautiful custom slipcase, edged in red morocco, covered in black and white checks with spade designs stamped in red metallic foil.

Paperback. first edition. 90 very good -fine, reading crease Cover by Otto Storch or Gerald Gregg. paperback,

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. ___Layman=C.122_____The first appearance of this Sam Spade short story, complete in this issue. _____ Also includes: . _____ Dinosaur hunter Roy Chapman Andrews contrasts the dangers of expeditions to the Gobi Desert to roaming the streets of New York. _____ A long distance bus driver provides an anecdotal insight into his life on the road. _____ The covers are moderately soiled with fraying to the bottom edge of the front cover and first leaf. _____ One illustration has been cut out of the Edison Marshall short story. _____.

Stapled. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. John E Sheriden (cover), Charles S Chapman (You Can't Put Out the Sun), Joseph Clement (A Man Called Spade), George Howe (The Knight's Errand) (illustrator). First Edition. The July 1932 issue of The American Magazine. Contains You Can't Put Out the Sun, an article by poet Archibald Rutledge, A Man Called Spade, a short story by Dashiell Hammett, The Knight's Errand, a short story by Octavus Roy Cohen, and others, Numerous vintage ads. Condition issues include soiling to the covers and spine, a .375" closed tear at the bottom left fore edge of the rear cover that diminishes & fades out by page 121, (2.75"), 1" loss at the top of the spine, and a 1" closed tear at the right spine hinge that starts at the end of the loss. Missing pages 67/68 (Campbell Soup & Chevrolet Automobiles ads). No stories or articles seem to be affected. A good to very good copy of a vintage magazine with a short story by a prominent and collectible author.

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

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 a moderate chips to the wrappers, an owner label, brief ink annotations on the rear wrapper and first page. Layman A11.1.a., C 122.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by Joseph Clement (illustrator). 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 James C. Derieux, I'm Glad I'm Absent-Minded by Alexander Woollcott, The Admiral's Girl Friend by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Silk Train by Courtney Ryley Cooper, The Knight's Errand by Octavus Roy Cohen, Honeywell Harper Goes a-Selling! By Everett Rhodes Castle, The Tall Ladder, a Novel, Part IV by Katharine Newlin Burt, Forlorn Island, a Novel part V by Edison Marshall.

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.

Wrappers. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 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 19461950. 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).