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

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 and Other Stories, 1944) by 12 years and that was followed by 245 Sam Spade radio shows (30 minutes each) written by anonymous others from 1946–1950.

1) A Man Called Spade, in The American Magazine (not the common book), Vol. 114, No. 1 (July 1932).
2) Too Many Have Lived, in The American Magazine (not the common book), Vol. 114, No. 4 (October 1932).
3) They Can Only Hang You Once, in Collier’s Weekly, Vol. 90, No. 21 (November 1932).