N08811

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Lot 119
  • 119

Chandler, Raymond

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

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The Little Sister. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1949



8vo (8 x 5 1/2 in; 205 x 140 mm). Publisher's orange cloth stamped and titled in blue in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Artzybasheff; minor rubbing to jacket extremities.

Provenance

Raymond Chandler (La Jolla address ownership signature)

Literature

Bruccoli A8.2.b (noting this binding presumably precedes the yellow cloth).

Catalogue Note

Raymond Chandler's "file copy" copy of his fifth novel. The author has pencilled "File Copy" in red above his ink ownership stamp and the "12 Sept 1949" date stamp.

This first American edition is preceded by the English (see preceding lot),where the book was an enormous success and well-reviewed by even the "serious" literary establishment.