The Dain Curse Publisher's Trial Dust Jacket for the First Edition

by Dashiell Hammett, F. H Horvath, artist

$35,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

In dust jacket

1 sheet, folded. 7 3/4 x 19 inches. Folded, two small tears to bottom edge, otherwise near fine with minimal rubbing to edges and much brighter than the printed copies of the jacket that have come to market. In custom clamshell box. Item #376184 Likely Unique, and certainly the only surviving example, of the trial jacket for Hammet's second Continental Op book, which shows only the front and spine panels, leaving the rear panel and front and rear

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