THE HIGH WINDOW - ADVANCE COPY

by Raymond Chandler

$2,000 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. Chandler's third novel, set largely in Pasadena, with a complex plot involving counterfeiting, blackmail, and the theft of a rare and valuable American coin. Basis for John Brahm's 1947 film noir The Brasher Doubloon, starring Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Roy Roberts, Fritz Kortner, and George Montgomery as Philip Marlowe. Uncommon in the advance issue, which would have

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