The Lady in the Lake

by Raymond Chandler

$650 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First edition, first printing. vi , 216, 2 pp. Bound in publisher's light green cloth stamped in darker green; lacking dust jacket. Near Fine with slight lean and slight darkening to spine, light rubbing to extremities, and staining to rear board; rear inner hinge exposed. Former owner to front pastedown, and name in faded ink to back free endpaper verso. A hard-boiled crime classic and

• Printing: first

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