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Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep First Edition

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Title: The Big Sleep
Author: Chandler, Raymond
Description: 277, [1] pp. 7½x5, original orange cloth, color pictorial jacket. First Edition.Chandler's scarce first book which introduces the world to the famed private eye, Philip Marlowe. Only 5,000 copies of the first printing were produced. The basis for the 1946 film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. A cornerstone of American detective fiction. Bruccoli A1.1.a.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1939