Original yellow cloth, spine decoratively stamped and lettered in black and red, black single-line border stamped to front board with skull-and-crossbones ornament in red, rear board stamped with black rectangular Borzoi Books device, top edge purple, fore edge untrimmed. As a first printing this copy has the issue point of "dopped in" for "dropped in" in line 19 of page 260. The Dain Curse was originally serialized in four parts in Black Mask from November 1928 to February 1929 but, at the suggestion of Knopf, Hammett revised it for publication as a novel. It is a sensational example of golden age book production. First edition, first printing, of Hammett's second book and the final Continental Op novel, one of the two hardest to find in the dust jacket and thus genuinely uncommon in such a well-preserved, unrestored state.
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