Notes on Hammett's The Maltese Falcon

Notes on Hammett's The Maltese Falcon

The ML edition was discontinued in fall 1949 after at least 15 printings, leaving 6200 unsold copies in the warehouse. Most of these were remaindered in 1952, apparently the victim of the popularity of the Pocket Book paperback edition.

First copyright page text:     First Modern Library Edition

 

First binding style:     7

First inverse DJ number:     225

First list entries:     Caldwell, God's Little Acre but not
                                               Heyward, Porgy

                                                Giants listed through G14 [NOT G17]

Dates in print:     1934 (Spring) - 1949 (Fall)

Toledano number:     045.2

GT42

Confirmed buckram sighting?      no

Intro author:     Title author, written for the ML edition

Genre:     Novel

Original language:      English

Thanks to the contributors:
Henry Toledano Barry Neavill Pete Chocheles

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