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MYSTERY & DETECTIVE]. CHANDLER, RAYMOND. Playback. London, [1958]. Dust jacket. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION -- CHANDLER. Killer in the Rain. Boston, 1964. Dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION -- HAMMETT, DASHIELL. The Maltese Falcon. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1931]. Dust jacket. Seventh printing -- HAMMETT. Red Harvest. New York, [1931]. Dust jacket. Third printing -- HAMMETT. The Dain Curse. New York, [1929]. Dust jacket. Fifth printing -- HAMMETT. The Adventures of Sam Spade. Cleveland and New York, [1945]. Dust jacket; text browned. Second edition -- HAMMETT. Hammett Homicides. [New York, 1946]. Original wrappers. FIRST EDITION -- HAMMETT. The Continental Op. New York, [1946]. Original pictorial wrappers. Second edition, Dell paperback no. 129 -- HAMMETT. The Creeping Siamese. New York, [1951]. Original pictorial wrappers. Second edition, Dell paperback no. 538 -- STOUT, REX. How Like a God. New York, 1929. Dust jacket, spine panel darkened. FIRST EDITION of the author's first book -- STOUT. Golden Remedy. New York, 1931. Dust jacket, spine panel darkened. FIRST EDITION -- STOUT. Forest Fire. New York, [1933]. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION -- CAIN, JAMES M. Love's lovely Counterfeit. New York, 1942. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION -- CAIN. The Moth. New York, 1948. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION -- CAIN. The Butterfly. New York, 1947. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION -- COXE, GEORGE HARMON. Four Frightened Women. New York, 1939. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION -- COXE. The Jade Venus. New York, n.d. Original pictorial wrappers. Dell paperback edition no. 549 -- SHAW, JOSEPH T., editor. The Hard-Boiled Omnibus. New York, [1946]. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Together 18 volumes, various sizes (mostly 8vo), original bindings; dust jackets as issued; condition varies. (18)