Chandler Before Marlowe: Raymond Chandler's Early Prose and Poetry, 1908-1912

by Raymond Chandler, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Jacques Barzun, preface

$65 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1973. Posthumous anthology LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo 22 x 15cm , pp.xviii; 110. With a frontispiece of the author. Number 167 of 499 copies. Publisher's red quarter faux leather with gilt titles to spine and mottled cream paper over boards. Matching cream endpapers; all edges red. In the red faux leather slipcase. Gilt dulled to spine. Light bumping to slipcase. A near fine copy. Item #55847

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