Title: The Big Sleep
Author: Chandler, Raymond
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.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1939
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.
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