Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection
Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection
Raymond Chandler | The Big Sleep, 1939, first English edition
Lot Closed
February 4, 02:19 PM GMT
Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1939
first English edition, 8vo, original black cloth lettered in red, DUST-JACKET, minor creases to front free endpaper, slightly soiled dust-jacket frayed at extremities with spine faded
The introduction of Philip Marlowe to readers in England.
LITERATURE
Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone
PROVENANCE
The Alexis Galanos Collection