Raymond Chandler — The Little Sister

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptional copy of the first US edition of Raymond Chandler's fifth Philip Marlowe detective novel. The first US edition, first impression of Raymond Chandler's 1949 novel, published three months after the first UK edition. In the exceptionally bright price clipped illustrated dust wrapper, designed by Boris Artzybasheff.Set in Los Angeles in the 1940s, the novel follows private investigator Philip Marlowe's investigation of a missing persons case and blackmail scheme centred around a Hollywood starlet. The novel was partly inspired by Chandler's own experience working as a screenwriter in Hollywood, and his low opinion of the industry and those who worked in it.A wonderful copy of Chandler's fifth novel featuring Marlowe, one of the most well-known characters within the genre of hardboiled crime fiction. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped illustrated dust wrapper. Externally, exceptionally bright, with shelf wear to back strip head. Dust wrapper a touch sunned to back strip. Shelf wear to back strip head, with small closed tears. Light marks to rear wrap. Tape reinforcements to reverse of dust wrapper at back strip head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.