A Man Called Spade with Too Many Have Lived with They Can Only Hang You Once; in The American Magazine and Collier's Weekly

by Dashiell Hammett

$750 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

New York: American Magazine and Collier's Weekly, 1932. 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

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