The Big Sleep
$3,500 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available
First edition
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
- Printing: first
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