The Little Sister. [First UK Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by CHANDLER Raymond
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hamish Hamilton,, [1949]. 8vo., First Edition thus; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges, and with loss at upper edge of front panel and tail of backstrip. In the image a facsimile dustwrapper is laid loosely behind the original. Chandler's penultimate Marlowe novel. The UK first edition precedes the US edition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24268
- Title
- The Little Sister. [First UK Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- CHANDLER Raymond
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton,
- Date Published
- [1949]
- Keywords
- modern first edition, modern firsts, chandler, raymond chandler, philip marlowe, detective fiction, crime fiction
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- First Edition
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- Dustwrapper
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