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CHANDLER, Raymond (1888–1959). Playback. London: Hamish Hamilton, [1958]. 8vo. Publisher’s orangish-red cloth, spine lettered in silver (toning to endpapers); original unclipped dust jacket. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST PRINTING preceding the first U.S. edition. A NEAR FINE COPY. –– [Together with:] Playback. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. 8vo. Publisher’s medium orange cloth, upper cover titled within seven concentric circles stamped in brown (pale spotting to endpapers); original unclipped dust jacket (light chipping or rubbing at spine panel ends). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Bruccoli A11.1.a; A11.2.a. The final appearance of Philip Marlowe.