The Big Sleep
$6,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books
First edition
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First edition, first printing. 277, 1 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth stamped in brown. Near Fine with light lean to binding, droplet stains to top edge, several small stains to contents and bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with wear at the edges and a large chip at the top edge of the rear panel. The author's first novel, which introduced the
- Printing: first
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