Sale 2519 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, October 10, 2019

227 c   CHANDLER, RAYMOND. The Big Sleep. 8vo, publisher’s orange cloth stamped in blue, light rubbing to spine tips and corners; price-clipped dust jacket, spine panel faded with some wear at head and foot, tanning to rear panel and flap folds, discoloration to endpaper gutters from old binder’s glue. first edition of chandler ’ s first book in unrestored jacket . Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Bruccoli A1.1.a. New York: Knopf, 1939 [3,000/4,000]