Sale 2530 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, February 20, 2020

203 c   CHANDLER, RAYMOND. The Little Sister. 8vo, publisher’s red-orange cloth; unclipped dust jacket, folds rubbed, top edges with small chips and creasing, spine panel sunned with closed tears and chipping touching letters at head; some discoloration to endpapers,else contents clean. first american edition . Bruccoli A8.2.a. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949 [500/750] 204 c   CHANDLER, RAYMOND. The Little Sister. 8vo, publisher’s red cloth, spine leaning; unclipped dust jacket, tape mend on verso at head of spine extending to panels, corners and spine panel tips nicked, folds rubbed; ownership signature. first edition . The fifth Philip Marlowe novel; precedes the first American edition. Bruccoli A8.2.a. London: Hamish Hamilton, (1949) [400/600] 205 c   CHANDLER, RAYMOND. The Long Good-Bye. 8vo, publisher’s burgundy cloth stamped in silver, boards slightly bowed; dust jacket, paper restorastions on verso along top and bottom edges, corners nicked, short closed tears, dust soiling, folds rubbed; small inked character and stamp on endpapers. first edition . The English edition preceded the American by a few months. Bruccoli A10.1.a. London: Hamish Hamilton, (1953) [500/750] 203 204 205