Little Sister

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1949.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Very Good plus price-clipped dust jacket with shallow chipping to the head & heel of the spine. This is Chandler's fifth novel, first published in an edition of 12,500 copies. In The Little Sister, a movie starlet with a gangster boyfriend and a… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First US edition. Publisher's first-state orange cloth, spine and front stamped in blue. Spine ends slightly pushed, trace of shelf wear, some pages roughly cut. 249 pp. A near fine copy in facsimile dust jacket with slight wear that's now protected in mylar cover. .

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949 First American edition, first printing. One of 12,500 copies. Publisher's reddish orange cloth, stamped in dark blue to front board and lettered in dark blue to spine; in the original pictorial dust jacket designed by Boris Artzybasheff. A near fine copy with a slight lean to the spine, spine ends with some fading; unclipped dust… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 7.5" by 5.5". None. A handsome copy of the true first edition of Raymond Chandler's fifth Philip Marlowe detective novel. The first edition, first impression of Raymond Chandler's 1949 novel, published three months prior to the first US edition.In the bright price unclipped illustrated dust wrapper,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Canada: Pocket Books, 1951. Book. Illus. by William Shoyer Painted Cover.. Very Good/ Fine. Soft cover. Second Edition By Publisher.. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 250 pages.IMDB notes "Interesting variation on 'The Little Sister' by Raymond Chandler with '40's film noir replaced by a colorful and stylish '60's motif. The film does a good job of keeping certain… Saber más sobre este artículo

UK: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 3rd Imp or 1st Cheap edition 1953. Same format and style as the 1st Edition. The book is very good++ and bright. The wrapper is very good and bright. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. Light soiling… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First Edition. First American edition, first issue cloth. [vi], 249 pp. Publisher's red cloth stamped in navy blue. Very Good with a bit of sunning to spine, slight lean to spine, a few tiny black stains to back board, lacking jacket. Chandler's fifth novel to feature Philip Marlowe.

VG+ / VG-. 1949 Hamish Hamilton, first UK edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket has a 1/2" chip to the rear cover (lower left corner). Front jacket cover has creasing and/or tears to lower left and upper right corners. Otherwise nice. UK release preceded U.S. by about 3 months.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover, 249 pages. Dust jacket is price clipped and shows some wear and rubbing to edges, spine and flaps, with small chunks missing from edges of spine. Red cloth with blue titles. Book itself in very good condition. Dj protected by mylar cover. Record # 856839

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. Hardcover. 249pp. Yellow cloth stamped in blue on the front and the spine. Light fading to top edge of cloth. A very good+ copy in good dustjacket with wear, light fading to spine panel and three old tape mends (two to the inside, one on the front panel). Dustjacket art by Boris Artzybasheff. ;… Saber más sobre este artículo

Penguin Books, 1969. Paperback. Acceptable. 1969. Reprinted. 246 pages. Pictorial paper cover. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to hinges with covers slightly coming away from text-block. Binding remains firm. Paper cover has mild edge wear with scuffing to edges and creasing. Small splits to joints. Book has rolled spine. Light tanning to spine and edges.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Penguin Books, 1966. Paperback. Good. 1966. Reprinted. 246 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and sunning.

Very minor chipping from bottom of book and yellowing of pages as expected in older paperback; all else fine. #223977095 and cost of .95 cents on red cover; back of man and silver dagger (handle of naked woman) through orange flower on cover. 2nd Printing as indicated on copyright page. Paperback protected by archival Mylar cover.

Paperback. Very Good.

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Co.. Good/No Jacket. 1949. First Edition. Cloth. Reddish, orange, cloth hardcover boards. The spine is slghtly darker from being handled. Pages are tight. 249 p. 22 cm. Story features Mr. Philip Marlowe the famous private investigator. the backdrop is California--Los Angeles of the 1940's. Turn up the… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Pocket Book, 1950. Soft cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. #750. First Pocket Book printing. Cover vertical creases but sound condition. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 12,500 copies. Octavo (21.5cm); first binding in red-orange cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],249,[1]pp. Hint of a lean, gentle sunning to spine ends, with some faint staining to lower margins ot pp.98-99; Very Good+ or better. Dustjacket is… Saber más sobre este artículo