Dashiell Hammett RED HARVEST 1929 Remastered Dustjacket, Continental Op

Description: Red Harvest [featuring the Continental Op] Digitally Remastered Dustjacket Only [Book is NOT included] Dashiell Hammett © 1929 Alfred Knopf - Grosset & Dunlap Printing - A Hard-Boiled Mystery Classic High Quality Digitally Remastered Laser Reproduction of Original Dustjacket We will be offering a selection of several digitally remastered dustjackets in our eBay listings !! Here is a nice opportunity to enjoy the original artwork while saving on the cost of an original dustjacket. See my listings for more -- several different classic PhotoPlay & mystery jackets available. Next up in preparation are the early 1930s printings of the Perry Mason and Ellery Queen dustjackets. All digitally remastered dustjackets are shipped in a removable, Brodart or Demco archival dustjacket protector, and are ready to place on your book. IMPORTANT NOTE: This remastered dustjacket corresponds with the red cloth G&D printing circa 1929. Caveat Emptor: Sellers commonly mistakenly list the burgundy cloth G&D book as a 1930s printing because of the copyright page imprint. That is NOT correct - the burgundy G&D book is a later Madison Square wartime reissue and was reprinted circa 1942/43 reusing the earlier printing plates [and copyright page] as was common practice in the 1910s to 1930s. Many collectors are being confused and sellers are unwittingly perpetuating these mistakes to the point of making it an urban legend. [see similar notes for our Maltese Falcon and Thin Man listings -- the publisher Grosset & Dunlap changed the binding color for the 1940s reissues]. Due to the scarcity of this dustjacket, I have added an embossed digital watermark to these images to avoid unauthorized duplication. The embossed watermark will NOT appear over the artwork on the front panel. The counter-stamps identifying this as a reproduction WILL appear discretely on the flaps only. About Dustjackets: The dustjacket offered in this auction is digitally scanned from a high quality original. The master is then carefully restored to remove any minor imperfections. This significantly enhances the eye appeal rather than just offering a color photocopy with flaws. Great care is taken to painstakingly retouch these images with emphasis on maintaining the full scope of the original artwork and preserving the texture and granularity of the original. The dustjacket is then printed on an industrial quality machine which far exceeds the image quality possible on any inkjet printer, and produces sharper, crisper images and much better color definition (tone, hue & saturation) with pleasing results. About Title: Personville was bad, so bad, in fact, that its citizens quite casually called it Poisonville. It was a name that stuck, for the chief of police and his crowd were a shade worse than the gang factions that made it a seething cauldron of hate and greed. In a moment of panic the town's big boss hires an operative of the Continental agency to rid him of his gunmen. When the "op" arrives, Poisonville is ripe for the harvest. This is the story of its cleaning up. With the aid of a woman who knew Poisonville's underworld through intimate association and whose watchword was "gimme", he plays faction against faction, literally busts the town wide open, leads it into a frenzy of murders and killings and in the end hands it back to the boss a smouldering ember of its former self. Here is an extraordinary tale of gunmen, murder, gin and gangsters, told in fast, clear, hard-boiled language that sweeps you off your feet with its speed -- it is a tale as modern as yesterday's gunfight. About Author: Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961] was a popular mystery author of the 1930s. His characters are among the most recognizable among classic mysteries including: Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse)

Price: 17 USD

Location: Fairhaven, Massachusetts

End Time: 2024-01-04T21:00:50.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4 USD