Sale 2462 - 19th & 20th Century Literature, November 24, 2017

39 c   CHANDLER, RAYMOND. The Big Sleep. 8vo, publisher’s orange cloth stamped in blue, faint white smudging to rear board; unclipped original pictorial dust jacket by Hans J. Barschel, folds rubbed, small chips and splits to folds professionally restored on verso, few small stains to rear panel; rear end-leaf and free endpaper with upper corner restored, few small spots to pp. 20-23, pastedowns discolored near gutters. NewYork: Knopf, 1939 [4,500/6,000] first edition of chandler ’ s first book . Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Bruccoli A1.1.a.