Red Harvest.

HAMMETT, Dashiell.

Item Number: 122905

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929.

First edition of the author’s first book and “acknowledged literary landmark” (New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips. An exceptional example in a completely unrestored early issue dust jacket, which is usually encountered with restoration. Rare and desirable.

When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain. Time included Red Harvest in its 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005. The Nobel Prize-winning author André Gide called the book "a remarkable achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism, and horror." "Hammett's prose [is] clean and entirely unique. His characters [are] as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction" (The New York Times).