Dashiell Hammett THE MALTESE FALCON 1930 Remastered Grosset Jacket, Sam Spade

Description: eBay Listing - Newport Vintage Books - Photoplay Editions - The Maltese Falcon - 1941 Warner Bros Film starring Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Mary Astor The Maltese Falcon [basis for 1931 & 1941 Warner Bros. Films] Digitally Remastered Dustjacket Only [Book is NOT included] Dashiell Hammett -- Type 1 Variant © 1930 Alfred Knopf - Grosset & Dunlap Printing - A Silver Screen Mystery Classic High Quality Digitally Remastered Laser Reproduction of Original Dustjacket We will be offering a selection of several digitally remastered dustjackets in our eBay listings !! Here is a nice opportunity to enjoy the original artwork while saving on the cost of an original dustjacket. Although not a PhotoPlay Edition, this book is the basis for the well known 1931 Warner Bros Film starring Ricardo Cortez and Bebe Daniels. Today it is even more commonly associated with the famous 1941 Warner Bros Film starring Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Mary Astor. See my listings for more -- several different classic PhotoPlay & mystery jackets available. Next up in preparation are the early 1930s printings of the Perry Mason and Ellery Queen dustjackets. All digitally remastered dustjackets are shipped in a removable, Brodart or Demco archival dustjacket protector, and are ready to place on your book. IMPORTANT NOTE: This remastered dustjacket corresponds with the orange cloth G&D printing circa 1930. Caveat Emptor: Sellers commonly mistakenly list the green cloth G&D book as a 1930s printing because of the copyright page imprint. That is NOT correct - the green G&D book is a later Madison Square wartime reissue and was reprinted circa 1942/43 reusing the earlier printing plates [and copyright page] as was common practice in the 1910s to 1930s. Many collectors are being confused and sellers are unwittingly perpetuating these mistakes to the point of making it an urban legend. [see similar note for our Thin Man listing -- the opposite color change was employed in that case]. Due to the scarcity of this dustjacket, I have added an embossed digital watermark to these images to avoid unauthorized duplication. The embossed watermark will NOT appear over the artwork on the front panel. The counter-stamps identifying this as a reproduction WILL appear discretely on the flaps only. About Dustjackets: The dustjacket offered in this auction is digitally scanned from a high quality original. The master is then carefully restored to remove any minor imperfections. This significantly enhances the eye appeal rather than just offering a color photocopy with flaws. Great care is taken to painstakingly retouch these images with emphasis on maintaining the full scope of the original artwork and preserving the texture and granularity of the original. The dustjacket is then printed on an industrial quality machine which far exceeds the image quality possible on any inkjet printer, and produces sharper, crisper images and much better color definition (tone, hue & saturation) with pleasing results. About Title: It began with the appearance of a new client in Sam Spade's office -- the beautiful girl whose sister had run away with a man named Thursby. She wanted Spade, who was a detective, to find the man. That night Spade was called out of bed by the police to find his partner's murdered boy in an alley. Before he could get to the bottom of this, another murder was committed and he found himself plunged into one of the swiftest plots that ever kept the San Francisco Police guessing in the dark. Spade held them off at arm's length, partly because of the girl, who fascinated him, and partly because the pursuit of the Maltese Falcon offered a reward that staggered his imagination, when he found out what it meant to possess it. About Author: Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961] was a popular mystery author of the 1930s. His characters are among the most recognizable among classic mysteries including: Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse)

Price: 17 USD

Location: Fairhaven, Massachusetts

End Time: 2024-07-30T01:47:40.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4 USD