RAYMOND CHANDLER'S MYSTERY OMNIBUS

by Raymond Chandler

$6,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition · Signed

Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1944 . Inscribed first edition thus, collecting THE BIG SLEEP and FAREWELL, MY LOVELY. Very good in very good jacket. Item #55342 This wartime edition is also the first printed collection of any of his novels. THE BIG SLEEP 1939 and FAREWELL, MY LOVELY 1940 were Chandler's first two novels, introducing stoic noir detective Philip Marlowe. Chandler is a master prose

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