1983 Arion Press LTD.ED.400 Copies The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett Leather

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i000000 1983 Arion Press LTD.ED.400 Copies The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett Leather Description : THE MALTESE FALCON BY DASHIELL HAMMETT THE ARION PRESS : SAN FRANCISCO : 1983 DESCRIPTION: 1/4 Leather. Near Fine/ in Very Good or better Slip-case. 1983. Stated Edition of 400 copies. 8 1/2 X 10 1/4". [vi], vii-ix, [v], [2], 3-291, [2] pages. Cover of gray cloth with back-strip and falcons in black leather. Cover is near fine or better with black leather falcon paste-down in both boards with perfect silver edging and red eyes. Slip-case of same gray cloth with title on spine in silver on black leather paste-down. Some light spotting to the top of case and rear side has a small red pen mark, see photos. Otherwise very clean and sound. Binding and hinges are fine. No writing or bookplate. Map end papers. Paste-down photographic portrait of the author. Many photographs of San Francisco throughout. One photograph is a double fold-out panorama of the City from San Francisco Bay. All photographs described at rear. GORGEOUS! The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett , originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask . The story has been adapted several times for the cinema. The main character, Sam Spade , appears only in this novel and in three lesser known short stories, yet is widely cited as the crystallizing figure in the development of the hard-boiled private detective genre – Raymond Chandler 's character Philip Marlowe , for instance, was strongly influenced by Hammett's Spade. Spade was a departure from Hammett's nameless detective, The Continental Op . Sam Spade combined several features of previous detectives, most notably his cold detachment, keen eye for detail, and unflinching determination to achieve his own justice. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Maltese Falcon 56th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century . Samuel Dashiell Hammett ( pron.: / dÉ Ë Ê iË l/ ; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories , a screenplay writer, and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade ( The Maltese Falcon ), Nick and Nora Charles ( The Thin Man ), and the Continental Op ( Red Harvest and The Dain Curse ). In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" [2 ] and was called, in his obituary in The New York Times , "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." [3 ] Time magazine included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on a list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. ARION PRESS: The Arion Press in the United States of America "is considered the nation's leading publisher of fine- press books," according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. [1 ] Founded in San Francisco in 1974, it has published 95-plus limited-edition books , most printed by letterpress , often illustrated with original prints by notable artists. The press, writes Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times , "carries on a grand legacy of San Francisco printers and bookmakers." [2 ] The press was founded by Andrew Hoyem , continuing the tradition of the Grabhorn Press of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. Hoyem had been partners for seven years with the younger Grabhorn brother, and after his death Hoyem started Arion Press, preserving the Grabhorn's historic collection of American metal type. [3 ] Since 2001, Arion Press has been a cultural tenant at the Presidio , where it shares an industrial building with its typecasting division, M & H Type—the oldest and largest hot metal type foundry in the U.S. for letterpress printers. [4 ] The Arion Press gallery is open daily, and tours of the letterpress print shop, read more

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