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Raymond Chandler the Big Sleep Inscribed

Title: The Big Sleep
Author: Chandler, Raymond
Description: Blue cloth, dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First Black Widow Thriller Edition.Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For Dick Flournoy from Ray Chandler. Mar 18, 1945. As one rabbit to another." Richard Flournoy was a screenwriter who wrote nine Blondie movies and A Night to Remember. Flournoy's bookplate on front pastedown. First published in 1939.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: [1945]

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Jacket chipped at edges and with some light soiling; fine in a very good jacket.

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