Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 1,950
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
CHANDLER, RAYMOND. The Big Sleep. 8vo, publisher's orange cloth stamped in blue; top edge stained blue, joints lightly rubbed; original pictorial dust jacket by Hans J. Barschel, spine panel ends chipped including 1- 1/4 square inch loss at foot, vertical archival tape repairs along folds on verso, spine and back panel toned, unclipped, (additional facsimile jacket supplied) internally clean; LMS bookplate laid-in; housed in cloth drop-back case. New York: Knopf, 1939

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first edition of chandler's first book, published when he was 51 years old. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Bruccoli A1.1.a.