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The Little Sister
by Chandler, Raymond
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First Edition. Near Fine/Fine. First American edition, first issue cloth. [vi], 249 pp. Publisher's red cloth stamped in navy blue. Edges a little foxed and dust-soiled, offsetting to endpapers, else Fine and bright. The pictorial dust jacket is remarkable for being completely unsunned and rich in color-- especially the spine panel, which invariably appears yellowed and dulled in other copies. The head of the jacket is a little worn and there is a bit of dust soiling, light foxing to verso, and minor shelf wear, but it is unclipped ($2.50) and, best of all, unsophisticated; it has had no work done to it. The copy to beat of the classic Philip Marlowe mystery.
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
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140940466
- Title
- The Little Sister
- Author
- Chandler, Raymond
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- mmm
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
Glossary
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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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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