Raymond Chandler — Playback

London, The Thriller Book Club, 1958 . First edition. Cloth. A fine first Thriller Book Club edition of Raymond Chandler's final novel, featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe. The first Thriller Book Club edition, first impression of crime writer Raymond Chandler's final completed novel. In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Published by arrangement with Hamish Hamilton, the publisher of the first 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. A touch of spotting to fore edge of text block, with light evidence of tape residue to front free endpaper. Dust wrapper in exceptional condition, with a touch of shelf wear to back strip head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.