Author: Raymond Chandler
Title: Playback
Description: London, Hamish Hamilton, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition of Raymond Chandler's final novel, featuring Philip Marlowe. The first edition, first impression of crime writer Raymond Chandler's final completed novel. In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Published three months prior to the first US edition.Featuring Chandler's recurring private detective Philip Marlowe, one of the most well-known characters within the genre of hardboiled crime fiction. In this work, Marlowe is hired to follow an attractive and mysterious woman who is on the run.Of all Chandler's novels, Playback is the only one never to have been adapted into a film. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Minor tape residue to front free endpaper. Small tape repair to tale of dust wrapper back strip. Light chipping to back strip head, with minor marks to tail of rear wrap. Light spotting to reverse of dust wrapper back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Minor spotting to first few leaves, with pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.
Keywords: raymond chandler philip marlowe detective fiction crime fiction philip marlowe None
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Title: Playback
Description: London, Hamish Hamilton, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition of Raymond Chandler's final novel, featuring Philip Marlowe. The first edition, first impression of crime writer Raymond Chandler's final completed novel. In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Published three months prior to the first US edition.Featuring Chandler's recurring private detective Philip Marlowe, one of the most well-known characters within the genre of hardboiled crime fiction. In this work, Marlowe is hired to follow an attractive and mysterious woman who is on the run.Of all Chandler's novels, Playback is the only one never to have been adapted into a film. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Minor tape residue to front free endpaper. Small tape repair to tale of dust wrapper back strip. Light chipping to back strip head, with minor marks to tail of rear wrap. Light spotting to reverse of dust wrapper back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Minor spotting to first few leaves, with pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.
Keywords: raymond chandler philip marlowe detective fiction crime fiction philip marlowe None
Price: GBP 280.00 = appr. US$ 399.84 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 827F46
- Book number: 827F46
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