Playback
by Raymond Chandler
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good/very good +
- Seller
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Pleasanton, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. 205 pp. Approximately 5 1/2 x 8 1/4". Illustrated dustjacket in very good plus condition, price of $3.00 on inside flap, minor creasing and edgewear. Orange cloth over boards with a slight stain on the rear cover, second printing stated on copyright page, in very good condition. A Philip Marlowe Story, published by Raymond Chandler when he was 70 years old. Philip Marlowe was most famously played by Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep, and is often described as tough and hard-drinking yet also contemplative and philiosphical. This was Chandler's last completed novel
Synopsis
Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never herd of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it."Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence:" -- Ross MacdonaldFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Lair, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BL-001752
- Title
- Playback
- Author
- Raymond Chandler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1958
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The Book Lair, ABAA
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Pleasanton, California
About The Book Lair, ABAA
The Book Lair deals in rare and/or interesting items in many fields with a focus on Miniature Books and Modern Firsts. We are especially interested in unique cookbooks, children's books, Californiana, Edward Gorey, John Steinbeck, Stephen King, and Ian Fleming/James Bond Books.
We also buy and sell ephemera, photography, manuscript material, diaries and letter archives, and business archives in any field. If it tells a strong story, we're interested.
We also buy and sell ephemera, photography, manuscript material, diaries and letter archives, and business archives in any field. If it tells a strong story, we're interested.
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