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[CHANDLER, Raymond]. –– GARDINER, Dorothy, editor. –– WALKER, Katherine Sorely, editor. Raymond Chandler Speaking. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth stamped in red; original unclipped dust jacket (scant rubbing to extremities, Yates ownership signature to ffep); clamshell box. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, PERSONAL REVIEW COPY OF DONALD A. YATES with publisher’s slip laid in and a TLS from Dorothy Gardiner to Donald Yates thanking him for his “kind word about the Chandler book”. –– [Together with:] CHANDLER, Raymond. Five Sinister Characters. New York: Avon Book Company, [1945]. 12mo. Publisher’s color pictorial wrappers (extremities creased or rubbed, few old tape repairs to spine panel). DONALD YATES PERSONAL COPY with his rubber stamp to title. Bruccoli A13.1.b. Provenance: ownership signature and stamp of Donald A. Yates; literature professor, translator, and detective fiction critic who maintained an extensive correspondence on the subject between both Chandler and Cornell Woolrich.