VG / VG- .
1944 Modern Library 45 - 299 titles listed on jacket, .95 cents cover price. Hardcover with dust jacket. Aside from the stain to the rear jacket cover, a very nice early Modern Library edition of the Hammett classic - with the great E. McKnight Kauffer jacket design.Bookplate on inside cover; pink stain along lower and outer edges of rear jacket cover + small portion of inside rear flap (see photos).