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THE LITTLE SISTER
by Chandler, Raymond
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Good Jacket
- Seller
-
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Good Jacket. 8vo. First American edition in first state binding. Orange boards with blue graphic to front board, blue . lettering to spine. Slight rubbing to extremities. One small corner nudge to bottom rear corner. Bright and bold Dustjacket design by Boris Artzybasheff, and original $2.50 price to front flap. Dustjacket shows edgewear to spine caps and along folds, with a l.75" x .50" chip extending from top of spine to rear panel. Bright, sharp copy. "When the reader...comes up for air, he doesn't know whether he's been on a two-day reefer jag, or given a mauling by the Bay City cops, or blinded by the neon-lighted slum called Hollywood..." (front flap notes).
Synopsis
A movie starlet with a gangster boyfriend and a pair of siblings with a shared secret lure Marlowe into the less than glamorous and more than a little dangerous world of Hollywood fame. Chandler's first foray into the industry that dominates the company town that is Los Angeles.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76059
- Title
- THE LITTLE SISTER
- Author
- Chandler, Raymond
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Good Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Mass
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Detective Fiction, Philip Marlowe.
- Bookseller catalogs
- MYSTERY;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
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