Hammett (Dashiell) The Maltese Falcon, FIRST EDITION, original decorated cloth, top edge stained blue/green, original pictorial dust jacket, light damp stain to inner margin first few leaves not affecting text, small tear to base of dust-jacket, with some other minor wear to extremities, price-clipped as usual, preserved in quarter morocco fold-over box, 8vo, New York, 1930. ***A very good copy of this most influential detective fiction novel.