Sell Your Dashiell Hammett The Thin Man 1st Edition for up to Over $6,000 at Nate D. Sanders

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Dashiell Hammett The Thin Man 1st Edition

Dashiell Hammett’s crime novel The Thin Man was published in 1934 and adapted into a 1934 feature film. Nick and Nora Charles, the husband and wife detective duo from the novel, have also been adapted in a series of The Thin Man sequel films as well as a television and radio series.

Dashiell Hammett’s hardboiled novels are crime classics and first editions are very valuable. Please see below for a recent realized price:

Dashiell Hammett The Thin Man 1st Edition. Sold for nearly $6,000.

We have sold the following autographed copies of The Thin Man:

Hammett’s “The Thin Man” Inscribed 1st Edition

Scarce signed and inscribed copy of “The Thin Man” by Dashiell Hammett. New York: Alfred A. Knopf: 1934. First edition, first printing with red variant dust jacket with front flap reviews. Boldly inscribed, “For Dan and Peggy / with my best regards / Dashiell Hammett / New York / Sept. 23, 1934.” A rare copy of Hammett’s hardboiled detective novel which became the basis for the successful film series starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Minor fading and soiling to decorative green cloth boards (oxidation of green dye that was used in first edition printings has resulted in light green cloth boards). Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket. Overall, very good condition. Sold for $9,600.

Dashiell Hammett “Thin Man” Signed Book

“The Thin Man” signed and inscribed by Dashiell Hammett. New York: Alfred A. Knopf: 1934. First edition, first printing rare book. Hardcover sans dustjacket. Blue ink inscription on ffep reads: “For Paul Hollister / with best regards / Dashiell Hammett / New York / January 6, 1934.” First printing copy of the very first in Hammett’s iconic series of Nick and Nora detective books, which in turn inspired various movie adaptations, including those starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Book, measuring 5″ x 7.5″, runs 260pp. Inscription bold and legible, but suffers slightly from ink bleed. Cloth boards feature a stylish theater mask printed in blue ink on the front cover and excellent red and blue spine design. A large but light stain on the front cover and some shelf wear to bottom edges, very mild interior toning, but overall bright. An excellent copy in very good condition. Sold for $9,433.

We also sold the following Raymond Chandler classics:

Raymond Chandler Signed “Farewell, My Lovely”

Raymond Chandler signed copy of “Farewell, My Lovely.” New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Hardcover with dustjacket, 5″ x 7.5″, 275pp. Inscribed to front free endpaper, “For Maria Mariello, with the hope that she will do much better than I have, Raymond Chandler, May 10, 1945, Hollywood, California.” Damp staining to inner front and back covers leaves faint strip touching several words of the inscription. Light fading & soiling to backstrip. Some chipping & wear to DJ. Very good. Sold for $4,410.

Very Rare First Edition, First Printing of Raymond Chandler’s Masterpiece “The Big Sleep” — The Book That Brought His Detective Philip Marlowe to Fame — With Original Scarce Dustjacket

Scarce first printing, first edition of Raymond Chandler’s most famous book, “The Big Sleep.” New York: Alfred A. Knopf: 1939. This novel introduced Philip Marlowe, the detective whose famous first lines in the novel illuminated a character that would forever change the canon of noir and establish the primacy of the hard-boiled detective novel as a genre during the 30’s and 40’s: “I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be.” 277pp. book is in publisher’s original orange cloth, with very minor edge wear and very slight fading to the spine. Some discoloration along the hinges of the endpapers from binder’s glue. Original full-color unclipped $2.00 dustjacket has a few tiny chips and areas of loss to the edges, including one very short closed tear to top edge of jacket. An incredibly scarce copy of Chandler’s seminal work, rarely encountered in a well-kept and unrestored dust jacket. Sold for $2,600.

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