The Continental Op
by Hammett, Dashiell
Dashiell Samuel Hammett was born in St. Mary’s County. He grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Hammett left school at the age of fourteen and held several kinds of jobs thereafter—messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, operator, and stevedore, finally becoming an operative for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency. Sleuthing suited young Hammett, but World War I intervened, interrupting his work and injuring his health. When Sergeant Hammett was discharged from the last of several hospitals, he resumed detective work. He soon turned to writing, and in the late 1920s Hammett became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. In The Maltese Falcon (1930) he first introduced his famous private eye, Sam Spade. The Thin Man (1932) offered another immortal sleuth, Nick Charles. Red Harvest (1929), The Dain Curse (1929), and The Glass Key (1931) are among his most successful novels. During World War II, Hammett again served as sergeant in the Army, this time for more than two years, most of which he spent in the Aleutians. Hammett’s later life was marked in part by ill health, alcoholism, a period of imprisonment related to his alleged membership in the Communist Party, and by his long-time companion, the author Lillian Hellman, with whom he had a very volatile relationship. His attempt at autobiographical fiction survives in the story “Tulip,” which is contained in the posthumous collection The Big Knockover (1966, edited by Lillian Hellman). Another volume of his stories, The Continental Op (1974, edited by Stephen Marcus), introduced the final Hammett character: the “Op,” a nameless detective (or “operative”) who displays little of his personality, making him a classic tough guy in the hard-boiled mold—a bit like Hammett himself.
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THE CONTINENTAL OP; Selected and with an Introduction by Steven Marcus
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New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition Thus. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo, red quarter cloth over red boards with "The Continental Op" repeatedly blindstamped, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Richard Mantel with B&W photo of Hammett by Eileen Darby on back panel, xxix + 287 pages. Exceptional Condition! This is a handsome reprint of seven… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE CONTINENTAL OP
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THE CONTINENTAL OP
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THE CONTINENTAL OP
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[New York]: Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher, [1945]. First edition. An about very good copy, rubbing to edges and spine. (12587). Octavo, printed wrappers. Bestseller Mystery, No. B-62. Digest size magazine format, paperback original. Collects the following stories originally published in Black Mask, Fly Paper, Death on Pine Street, Zigzags of Treachery and The Farewell Murder.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Continental Op
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THE CONTINENTAL OP
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New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., n.d., [1946]. Paperback edition. Name and date to front free end paper, mild wear with rub at lower right front corner, stress crease to upper right front corner, a very good to nearly fine copy. (26740). Small octavo, cover by Gerald Gregg, pictorial wrappers. Dell 129 A mapback edition. Previously… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Random House, [1974]. First edition. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with slight shelf wear. (22485). Octavo, cloth backed boards. Collects seven Continental Op stories. Introduction by Steven Marcus. A companion volume to THE BIG KNOCKOVER. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Continental Op (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
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The Continental Op
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The Continental Op.
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THE CONTINENTAL OP.
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New York : Lawrence E. Spivak, (1945). First edition. A collection of four stories previously unpublished in book form, edited and introduced by Ellery Queen. Bestseller Mystery B62. Foolscap 4to (20cm). 126,[ii]pp. Original wrappers - a design by George Salter in blue, black and white; a little worn and creased; slight tear to title-page; text tanned, but a good… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Continental Op
by Dashiell Hammett (author); Steven Marcus (editor, introduction)
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The Continental Op
by Dashiell Hammett
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The Continental OP
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THE CONTINENTAL OP.
by Hammett, Dashiell. (Text) Marcus, Steven. (Ed.)
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