Sale 2478 - 19th & 20th Century Literature, May 15, 2018

60 c   CHANDLER, RAYMOND. The Little Sister. 8vo, publisher’s red-orange cloth; unclipped dust jacket, minor rubbing to folds and corners, abrading to spine panel head touching two letters, spine panel sunned; small stain to blank margin of p. 39, else contents clean. first american edition , in unrestored jacket. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949 [1,200/1,800] 61 c   CHANDLER, RAYMOND. Span- ish Blood. 8vo, publisher’s cloth; dust jacket, front flap corner clipped, shelfwear to rear panel, spotting to upper edges of flaps; small ink stain to first few pages at bottom edges, ownership inscription, contents browned as usual. first book appearance of five Chan- dler short stories. Cleveland:World Publishing, (1946) [150/250] 60 61 62 62 c   CHEEVER, JOHN. The Way Some People Live. 8vo, publisher’s red buckram, very slight lean; dust jacket, spine panel chipped at head and slightly toned, few corner nicks and some dust-soiling, price clipped; closed tear to pp. 67-68. first edition of cheever ’ s first book . NewYork: Random House, (1943) [300/400]