Dashiell Hammett Red Harvest 1932 1st US Very Good+

Description: Dashiell Hammett Red Harvest 1932 1st US Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. With 1929 On Title Page As Well As Copyright Page. Small Octavo in puplisher's red cloth. Stamped in black and yellow with diamond pattern to spine and skull and gold image of cross bones to cover. Without scarce dust jacket. 1929 on title page and copyright page, and no later printings mentioned. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-3] 4-270 [271: publisher's data] [272-276: blank].Publisher emblemb on rear cover. Enclosed in a in a plastic-protective cover and book case. Condition: Very Good+ Mild bumping to tail of spine. FEP and REP has light age toning, No foxingt. Pages intact and complete containing no writing or previous owner's bookplate. The author's first novel. Red Harvest drew on Hammett's true-to-life experience as an operative for the notorious Pinkerton Detective Agency. Narrated by a Continental Op, who becomes a recurring character in Hammett's work, the novel explores humans' violent tendencies when power and money are on the line.The Op is a short middle-aged man, who has few interests or activities outside of his job, a trait which is emphasized by Hammett's omission of the character's name. In this novel, the Op travels to the corrupt mining town Personville, referred to locally as "Poisonville," to solve a murder mystery. Arriving in town too late to meet his newspaper contact, who is murdered, Continental Op decides nevertheless to stay. He discovers that rival gangs have begun to loosen the control of the local industrialist (and father to the newspaperman) who had long been considered the most powerful figure in town. And as he begins to uncover how deeply corruption runs in the town, even implicating the police force, Continental Op becomes a target of a murder setup. An intellectual edge-of-your-seat thriller, Red Harvest launched Hammett's career and has secured itself a place on the 100 Best English Language Novels 1923-2005. Red Harvest was originally published serially in four installments in the pulp magazine Black Mask from November 1927 - February 1928. A very rare first edition of Hammett's first book.

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