Fine Books & Manuscripts

CHANDLER, Raymond (1888–1959). The Little Sister. London: Hamish Hamilton, [1949]. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; original unclipped second state dust jacket with “Some Opinions of the Book” on rear panel (few archival tape repairs to jacket verso; closed tear to front panel; binding and contents fine). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST PRINTING preceding the first U.S. edition. –– [Together with:] The Little Sister. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949. 8vo. Publisher’s reddish-orange cloth, upper cover stamped with deep blue dagger with naked woman as the handle (ex-library copy with stamps to front free endpaper); original unclipped dust jacket (trimmed at edges, flaps affixed to pastedowns with old adhesive browning to front flap). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Bruccoli A8.1.a; A8.2.a. The author’s fifth novel featuring the private detective Philip Marlow.