Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
CHANDLER, RAYMOND. The Lady in the Lake. 8vo, publisher's light green cloth lettered and decorated in dark green, slight lean, minor bump to spine head; dust jacket, light scattered spotting more evident on portions of verso, mild rubbing along flap folds, the purples on the front panel bright, unclipped; endpapers only lightly toned from old binders glue, else clean internally. New York: Knopf, 1943

Additional Details

first edition. a lovely copy. The pictorial dust jacket designed by Norman Reeves depicts a non-urban setting, appropriate enough in that this is one of Chandler's few fictions that largely takes place at a remove from Los Angeles and its immediate environs. Bruccoli A4.1.a.