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Dashiell Hammett. Twelve issues from the Mercury Mystery, Bestseller Mystery, Ellery Queen Presents, and Jonathan Press Mystery series. New York: The American Mercury, Inc., 1943-1962. Small quarto. 193 x 137 mm. Printed colored paper wrappers, toned, some soiling, a few creases here and there, some chipping along edges, rubbing to spines, sunned, pencil marks to front wrapper of Dead Yellow Women. Pages browned and brittle, some chipping along edges, a few small fore-edge tears, some scattered staining to text block edges, dampstaining to edges and gutter of Blood Money.. Otherwise, in very good condition for their pulp nature. Housed in a black cardboard slipcase.

Dashiell Hammett. $106,000 Blood Money. New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, n.d., [but 1943]. Bestseller Mystery, No. B40.
Dashiell Hammett. The Adventures of Sam Spade. New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, 1944. Bestseller Mystery, No. B50.

Dashiell Hammett. Two copies of The Continental OP. New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, 1945. Bestseller Mystery, No. B62.

Dashiell Hammett. The Return of the Continental Op. New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, 1945. A Jonathan Press Mystery, No. J17.

Dashiell Hammett. Hammett Homicides. New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, 1946. Bestseller Mystery, No. B81.

Dashiell Hammett. Two copies of Dead Yellow Women. New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, 1947. Ellery Queen Selects (A Jonathan Press Mystery), No. J29.

Dashiell Hammett. Nightmare Town. New York: The American Mercury; Lawrence E. Spivak, 1948. A Mercury Mystery, No. 120.

Dashiell Hammett. The Creeping Siamese. New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, 1950. A Jonathan Press Mystery, No. J48.

Dashiell Hammett. Woman in the Dark. New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, 1951. A Jonathan Press Mystery, No. J59.

Dashiell Hammett. A Man Named Thin. New York: Joseph W. Ferman, 1962. A Mercury Mystery, No. 233. From the Gary Munson Collection


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