Raymond Chandler — Playback

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1958 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent example of the first edition of Raymond Chandler's final novel, featuring the private detective 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. Bump to spine tail, otherwise externally fine. Paper reinforcement to dust wrapper running the length of the dust wrapper head and tail to the reverse. Neat minor repairs to the back strip head and tail, and the head of the rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned due to paper type, but otherwise clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.