PLAYBACK - UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, INSCRIBED, WITH EDITORIAL CORRECTIONS

by Raymond Chandler

$12,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1958. First Edition. A proof copy of the final Philip Marlowe novel. Marlowe is weakening by his own standards , since he takes on an impossible girl who is running away from a quite imaginary threat and forces her to trust him. There is some silly back-and-forth with 5,000 of traveler's checks, a double fornication without much zest, and at last a transatlantic phone call summoning Marlowe to

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