Books

Identification and Price Guide First Edition

by Nancy Wright

Avon Books, New York. (September 1993). Trade paperback. 299 pages. (5¼ X 8). Introduction by the author. An alphabetical listing by author has prices for many first editions. L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics from Hermitage (1950), is priced at $125-$250 and Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon from Knopf (1930), can be had for $2,000-$3,000.