CHANDLER, Raymond

The Little Sister

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 12,500 copies. Octavo (21.5cm); first binding in red-orange cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],249,[1]pp. Hint of a lean, gentle sunning to spine ends, with some faint staining to lower margins ot pp.98-99; Very Good+ or better. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), spine-sunned, edgeworn, with several nicks, tears, and attendant creases; some vertical creasing to flaps, with old tape marks to flap edges, and a small patch of tape to rear panel; Good to Very Good. Chandler's fifth novel, first published in London by Hamish Hamilton, which precedes the US edition by three months. BRUCCOLI A8.2.a; HUBIN, p.75.

Price: $400.00

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