APG 124.3 (2004)
ChandlerR.pdf. Item #22755 More
ChandlerR.pdf. Item #22755 More
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, (1973). First edition. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Foreword by Jacques Barzun. Number 211 of a limited first printing of 499 copies of which the first 400 were for sale. Gilt-stamped red-leatherette backed off-white "marbled" paper boards; top edge red; ribbon place marker. In..... Item #53937 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. First edition. First book appearances of eight stories written by Chandler in the 1930's for pulp magazines. Introduction by Philip Durham. Spine a little shaken otherwise near fine in very good to near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with edges rubbed and few tiny nicks and tears..... Item #53932 More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [circa 1947]. First edition thus, a photoplay edition with scenes from the 1947 movie starring Robert Montgomery on jacket panels and flaps. Crease to front cover of book (board bent then straightened) otherwise would be very good or better with bookplate on front endpaper, in..... Item #53177 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First U.S. edition, preceded by the UK edition. Pin prick to front gutter otherwise crisp and near fine in about very good price-clipped dust jacket with shallow rubbed chipping to spine ends and corners and two old tape repairs on verso. Item #53931 More
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1953). First UK edition, preceding the 1954 U.S. edition. Faint stain to page fore edges otherwise crisp and fine in good, lightly rubbed dust jacket with some flattened creasing and chips at spine tips taking out first and last letters of "Raymond" and at base of spine..... Item #53935 More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1977). First U.K. edition. "....early versions of descriptions, ideas, and anecdotes ... [and] ... collections of pickpocket lingo and jailhouse slang" as well as essays and a short story, "The English Summer," which is illustrated by Gorey. 8vo gilt-stamped dark red textured paper boards; 113 pages;..... Item #72102 More
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1958). First edition, preceding the U.S. edition. First issue boards stamped in silver versus yellow. The final (complete) Philip Marlowe. Near fine in price-clipped dust jacket lightly rubbed at spine ends, tips and folds. Bottom half rear flap clipped out, good only thus. Item #53943 More
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, (1946). First edition. Collects five stories. Pages considerably darkened and brittle corners chipped at bottom of pp. 73/4 and 75/6 otherwise very good in near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing to spine ends. Item #53929 More