The Glass Key
by HAMMETT, Dashiell
First
Price: $4,500.00- Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 84799
- Edition: First
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Place: London
- Date published: 1931
Book Description
London: Alfred A. Knopf. 1931. First. First edition, preceding the American edition, and first issue, with the Knopf imprint (later issues have the Cassell imprint). Attractive engraved bookplate on the front pastedown, slightly cocked, and with a small, not too obtrusive stain on the front board, otherwise near fine, lacking the rare dustwrapper. A very attractive copy of the author's fourth book. This true first, English edition is exceptionally uncommon, and flat out rare in the jacket (which this copy lacks). Knopf published in the U.K. for only a few years, and generally produced very small editions. .
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