As Sam Spade comes roaring into Public Domain with the New Year, Steeger Books offers an edition of The Maltese Falcon using the original text from Black Mask — intro by pulp historian Will Murray. Serious book collector types will want the hardback state, the first edition thus in hardcovers.
And Mark Coggins tells me that in a week there’ll be a new edition from the Poltroon Press — the regular text, but illustrated throughout with photos by Mark. And with his two recent Sam Spade short stories serving as an in-book sequel.
