THE LADY IN THE LAKE
de Chandler, Raymond
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Good Plus to Very Good
- Librería
-
Canandaigua, New York, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York: Pocket Books, 1959. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Pocket Cardinal C-344; one of the novels that cemented Chandler's reputation as a grand master of the hardboiled mystery, features Los Angeles private detective, Philip Marlowe; First Printing of First Cardinal Edition; text is clean, tight, age-tanned with a very slight spine lean in whole but slightly worn pictorial wrappers showing minor creasing, surface and edgewear. Collectable.
Sinopsis
Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing – on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe's on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake ...
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Detalles
- Librería
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 002284
- Título
- THE LADY IN THE LAKE
- Autor
- Chandler, Raymond
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Mass Market Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good Plus to Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Printing, First Edition Thus.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Editorial
- Pocket Books
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1959
- Palabras clave
- MYSTERY, FIRST EDITION, DETECTIVE, PHILIP MARLOWE, VINTAGE PAPERBACK, LOS ANGELES, HARDBOILED
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Mystery; Private Detective; Vintage Paperback;
Términos de venta
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
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Sobre el vendedor
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Canandaigua, New York
Sobre H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- 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...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
