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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958.

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Hardcover. First American edition. The cloth is a trifle rubbed at the foot, else fine in fine dustwrapper with almost none of the usual rubbing. A nice copy of a cheaply manufactured volume.

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Item #395840 Playback. Raymond CHANDLER.

Raymond Chandler
birth name: Raymond Thornton Chandler
born: 7/23/1888
died: 3/26/1959
nationality: USA

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Biography

American author of detective fiction, creator of the private eye Philip Marlowe. Set in the Los Angeles area, Chandler's novels and short stories are esteemed (especially by European critics) as outstanding examples of regional writing. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

Chandler's first four novels in fine jackets The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The High Window (1942), and The Lady in the Lake (1943), are the book collecting equivalent of big game. However, while in the past, I would have said that a collector's patience might be rewarded, as nice copies would occasionally surface (even though they would command a premium), increasingly (or I guess decreasingly) we have either not been seeing jacketed copies at all, or have seen them in compromised condition. This has had the effect of elevating copies of his later works, which can occasionally be found, such The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, and Killer in the Rain into hot commodities, and I suspect this trend will continue.

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