Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
CHANDLER, RAYMOND. Farewell, My Lovely. 8vo, original wrappers with dust jacket image, some rubbing along joints and backstrip extremities with a small repair to upper corner, front wrapper with miniscule separations at head and foot of backstrip, light tanning to rear cover; faded publisher's inkstamp to top-edges, two small ink smudges on front flyleaf; custom two-toned brown cloth clamshell box. New York: Knopf, 1940

Additional Details

advance review copy. Scarce on the market; we locate only four copies appearing at auction in the last two decades, and none since 2007 (Swann, May 17, 2007, lot 314). Increasingly uncommon, especially as found here. Bruccoli A2.1.a; Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.