first edition Hardcover
1942 · New York
by Chandler, Raymond
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. [viii], 240 pp. Publisher's light brown cloth with dark crimson lettering. Very Good condition with spine lean, light wear, typical slight offsetting to endpapers. No dust jacket. The third of Chandler's acclaimed Philip Marlowe novels, wherein Marlowe is hired by an old Pasadena lush, Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock, to find an 18th Century coin called the Brasher Doubloon. The basis of two '40s films: Time to Kill and The Brasher Doubloon.
(Inventory #: 140944673)