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The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep by CHANDLER, Raymond

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books
Title
The Big Sleep
Author
CHANDLER, Raymond
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First Edition. First Printing, one of 5,000 copies. Octavo (19cm); orange cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in blue on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-277,[3]pp. Light wear to joints and extremities, some rubbing to topstain, offsetting to endpapers, with rough erasure to an old inscription on front endpaper, and old adhesive stains running the length of the gutters at endpapers; text is clean; Very Good. In a supplied dustjacket, unclipped (priced $2.00), shelfworn, gently and pretty evenly sunned, with some very shallow losses to spine ends and corner tips (none encroaching on lettering), a few small splits and tiny tears, with neat evidence of the flaps being skilfully removed after being mounted to the pastedowns of another copy; Very Good. Chandler's first book, a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone novel, and basis for Howard Hawks's 1946 film noir, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. BRUCCOLI A1.1.a; HUBIN, p.75. 82555.
The Missouri Breaks; An Original Screenplay

The Missouri Breaks; An Original Screenplay by McGuane, Thomas

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Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA
Title
The Missouri Breaks; An Original Screenplay
Author
McGuane, Thomas
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Ballantine Books, 1976. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Ballantine 25218-7. Signed by McGuane on the title page. Very Good. Wraps generally toned, a faint crease along the top spine fold. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Illustrated with film stills and behind the scenes photographs.
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The New Colophon: A Book Collectors’ Quarterly. Volume II, Part Five (January 1949). by Adler, Elmer, John T. Winterich and Frederick B. Adams, Jr.

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Title
The New Colophon: A Book Collectors’ Quarterly. Volume II, Part Five (January 1949).
Author
Adler, Elmer, John T. Winterich and Frederick B. Adams, Jr.
Seller
Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Duschnes Crawford, 1949. One of 2500 printed by E. L. Hildreth & Co. Quarto, patterned boards, [vi], 104, [2] pp. Illus., ads. Includes: Epic on an American Theme, by Stephen Vincent Benét; Grabhorniana, by Oscar Lewis; Peter the Whaler, Plagiarist, by Malcolm M. Willey; Colored Paste Papers, by Rosamond B. Loring; A Seventh Century Book-Label Problem, by Edward Naumburg, Jr.; The Literature of the Gold Rush, by Carl I. Wheat; and Firsts, in a Manner of Speaking, by Vincent Starrett, and illustrated by Susanne Suba. Fair, with wear to spine (interior bright and tight).

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