Jack London's Before Adam Battles: The Media Frenzy Over His "Most Unfortunate Book" Edited by Vince Emery. After years of study, Jack London wrote his caveman saga Before Adam, only to be blasted by firestorms of controversy that made him call his dream novel "the most unfortunate book I ever wrote," the one volume he wished he'd never written. Jack London's Before Adam Battles reveals the untold story, by turns surprising, hilarious, and heartbreaking, behind the worldwide media uproar over Jack London and his provocative book. London Collector editor Richard Weiderman says: "It's a stunner." Click to learn more Available now news ♠ contents ♠ Paperback ISBN 978-0-9855053-5-6

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Babes in the Wood: The Lost Stone-Age Sequel to Jack London's Before Adam By George Sterling. Edited by Vince Emery. In Babes in the Wood, acclaimed poet and playwright George Sterling tells the exciting adventures of two cave kids, a boy and a girl, growing from age 10 to young adulthood in a prehistoric tribe. The young troublemakers face saber-tooth cats, woolly mammoths, and other Stone Age dangers, including their tribe’s hot-tempered chief, the boy’s father. Sterling wrote Babes in the Wood inspired by his best friend Jack London’s controversial prehistoric novel Before Adam. Lost for more than a hundred years, this is its first book publication. Click to learn more Available now news ♠ contents ♠ George Sterling ♠ Paperback ISBN 978-0-9855053-3-2

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Second edition! The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words, second edition By Harvey Milk. Edited by Vince Emery. The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words, second edition is the first book in which Milk explains his life, struggles, strategies, and dreams in his own words. Lambda Literary Review says: "Angry, intelligent, and wickedly funny, Milk comes to glorious life." The book provides the texts of 39 interviews Milk made for newspapers, radio, and television. None of the contents of The Harvey Milk Interviews has ever been published in a book before. This new edition is updated, expanded, and in paperback for the first time. Its enlarged index includes a 69-topic guide to Milk's legislative activities. Click to learn more Available now news ♠ reviews ♠ contents ♠ Paperback 2nd edition ISBN 978-0-9855053-1-8 Hardcover first edition ISBN 978-0-9725898-8-8 SOLD OUT

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The Dashiell Hammett Tour: Thirtieth Anniversary Guidebook By Don Herron. Preface by Jo Hammett. Introduction by Charles Willeford. In this expanded and revised thirtieth-anniversary edition, Don Herron’s The Dashiell Hammett Tour guides you over the fog-shrouded hills stalked by Sam Spade, the Continental Op, and other legendary characters created by San Francisco’s most famous mystery writer, Dashiell Hammett. San Francisco Examiner: “Hammett shows San Francisco at its most glamorous, dangerous, and intriguing. The City is full of Hammett landmarks, and if you want to see them all, take The Dashiell Hammett Tour.” Click to learn more SOLD OUT news ♠ reviews ♠ contents ♠ Paperback ISBN 978-0-9825650-0-1 Hardcover ISBN 978-0-9725898-7-1/FONT>

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Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade Edited by Richard Layman Edgar Award nominee as Best Critical/Biographical Book of the Year! From institutional and private archives, a wealth of surprises about Dashiell Hammett's novel, movies (including John Huston's classic starring Humphrey Bogart), radio, more. Library Journal (starred review): "This one-stop resource is a … dream. Highly recommended." Los Angeles Times: "A treasure beyond price for fans of both the classic Hammett novel and the three (that's right, three) film versions of the doomed quest for a black bird. An incredible amalgam of photos, memos, letters, reviews, whatever, this will make fans of the book or the film gasp as one unexpected delight succeeds another. With this book, wonders really do never cease." Click to learn more Available now news ♠ reviews ♠ contents ♠ ISBN 0-9725898-6-4

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Hammett's Moral Vision By George J. "Rhino" Thompson. Introduction by William F. Nolan. "If you haven't read Thompson, you don't know Hammett," says publisher Vince Emery. Hammett's Moral Vision is the single most influential full-length investigation of Dashiell Hammett's novels, even though it has never been available in book form. It has affected almost all subsequent analyses of Hammett's work. Now Thompson's work will be updated and made widely available for the first time. Its heart is Thompson's analysis of five Hammett novels: Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and The Thin Man. He examines each one in detail, and compares what others have written about the novels with his own thought-provoking insights. Click to learn more Available now more ♠ Hardcover ISBN 0-9725898-3-X

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Lost Stories By Dashiell Hammett. Introduction by Joe Gores. Edited by Vince Emery. This collection rescues 21 long-lost stories by Dashiell Hammett, the bestselling creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man. Library Journal (starred review): "Must reading for mystery buffs." Booklist (starred review): "These 21 ... stories find Hammett at or near the top of his game, his signature hard-boiled style shining brightly." Otto Penzler, New York Sun: "A hugely important book [that] includes 21 stories, most of which have never been seen except by the most dedicated scholars. It belongs on the shelf of every detective fiction reader and collector." A featured alternate selection of The Book-of-the-Month Club. Click to learn more Available now reviews ♠ contents ♠ questions ♠ news ♠ ISBN 0-9725898-1-3

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Lost Stories: deluxe collector's edition By Dashiell Hammett. Introduction by Joe Gores. Edited by Vince Emery. The deluxe limited edition of Lost Stories was published 3 months before the trade edition, making this limited edition the first book publication for several Hammett stories, and the first hardcover edition for all but 5 of the 21 stories. The deluxe collector's edition is limited to 195 hand-numbered copies, each signed by both Joe Gores and Vince Emery, and bound in cloth with a spine of Saderra leather. The book's spine and front cover are stamped with genuine gold, and page edges are gilt. It is housed in a matching slipcase with debossed art panels on the front and back sides. Click to learn more Available now more ♠ ISBN 0-9725898-0-5

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Double Play: The Hidden Passions Behind the Double Assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk By Mike Weiss San Francisco Supervisor Dan White assassinated Mayor George Moscone and fellow Supervisor Harvey Milk but received only a slap-on-the-wrist sentence for manslaughter—a verdict that provoked thousands of outraged San Franciscans to riot. What hidden passions drove White to kill Moscone and Milk? How did he literally get away with murder? An exciting true crime thriller, Double Play provides often-shocking answers based on years of research and hundreds of interviews. The book earned the Edgar Award as Best True Crime Book of the Year. Click to learn more Available now news ♠ reviews ♠ contents ♠ Hardcover + DVD ISBN 978-0-9825650-5-6

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The Crime Wave: Collected Nonfiction By Dashiell Hammett. Edited by Vince Emery. Dashiell Hammett is famous for his fiction, but he also wrote nonfiction: book reviews, magazine articles, and more. The Crime Wave will be the only collection of Hammett's nonfiction. It will include Hammett's advice on how to write well, his views on good mysteries and bad ones, his political writings, his history of the World War II Battle of the Aleutians, and the complete text of all of his newspaper columns, "The Crime Wave." Most of the rarities in The Crime Wave have never been available in book form. In preparation

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George Sterling's Greatest Hits: The Acclaimed Poet's Most Enjoyable Fiction, Songs, Plays, Poems, and More for Today's Reader Edited and introduced by Vince Emery. George Sterling was one of the most highly-acclaimed American poets of the first quarter of the twentieth century. His work was admired by authors as diverse as Jack London (who called Sterling "the greatest living poet in the United States"), H. P. Lovecraft ("I have the most profound respect for his work & influence"), Ambrose Bierce ("a very great poet—incomparably that we have on this side of the Atlantic"), and Theodore Dreiser ("the ranking American poet, greater than any we have thus far produced"). Few people know that Sterling also wrote fiction, plays, songs, and more. This anthology selects a diverse array of Sterling's works chosen to appeal to a twenty-first century reader. In preparation for 2023 about author George Sterling

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The Ace Performer Collection Books by and about Dashiell Hammett Dashiell Hammett, the bestselling creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, was one of the America's most entertaining authors, and one of its most influential. His disciple Raymond Chandler crowned Hammett as "the ace performer." To celebrate Hammett and his writing, Vince Emery Productions is publishing The Ace Performer Collection, a series of books by and about Dashiell Hammett. Click to learn more Available now news ♠