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No edition or printing statement. Published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, who originally published these three novels separately, then collected them into an omnibus edition in 1935. A Fine copy in deep orange cloth stamped in black, rich black topstain, in a Near Fine orange, grey white and black dustwrapper (with the photo of Hammett on the front panel), price-clipped, unfaded, with trace wear to spine-ends. (Price was torn out of the top edge of the front flap.) 270pp./272pp./267pp. Paginated from the original separate editions. A beautiful copy with vibrant rich colors, with a clean text and endpapers, appears unread. It's impossible to overestimate the importance of these novels to the whole noir tradition, literature and film. Q11212.

Red Harvest is a gritty crime novel by Dashiell Hammett that follows an unnamed detective, the Continental Op, as he uncovers the corruption in a bleak, crime-ridden town called Personville.