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Sale 480: Fine Literature - Fine Books in All Fields (#480) 05/24/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 05/24/2012 11:00 AM PDT

Lot #61 The Big Sleep

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$6,250

Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000

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Title:

The Big Sleep

Author:

Chandler, Raymond

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Knopf

Date Published:

1939

Description:

277, [1] pp. Orange cloth, color pictorial jacket. First Edition.

Chandler's scarce first book, introducing the world to the famed private eye Philip Marlowe. Only 5,000 copies of the first printing produced. The basis for the 1946 film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Bruccoli A1.1.a.

Condition:

Edge wear, small chips and splits to folds professionally restored; rubbing to cloth; rear end-leaf and free endpaper with upper corner restored, pastedowns darkened; else very good in like jacket.

Item#:

226228

Headline:

Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep 1st Edition in DJ
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