Raymond Chandler — Spanish Blood

Cleveland and New York, The World Publishing Company; Tower Books, 1946 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thrilling collection of five short crime fiction stories from Raymond Chandler. The first edition, first printing of this work, published in July 1946.In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.The stories in this collection had previously appeared in two Avon paperbacks, published in 1944 and 1945.This collection includes 'Spanish Blood', 'The King in Yellow', 'Pearls are a Nuisance', 'Nevada Gas', and 'Trouble in my Business&apos. Raymond Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter best known for his detective crime stories. He was best known for writing the novels such as 'The Big Sleep' and 'The Long-Goodbye', featuring the PI Philip Marlowe. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise fine. Minor chipping to dust wrapper back strip tail, and light edgewear to back strip head, otherwise excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned due to paper type, but clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.