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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original red cloth decorated in black and yellow; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with bright and shark stamping, slight fading to spine cloth; former owner bookplate to front pastedown with associated offsetting to adjacent page and half-title is roughly opened with a narrow chip at the bottom edge. A handsome copy of a book difficult to locate in such nice condition.

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.

The first edition features a red cloth cover with gold lettering on the spine.