Fine Books & Manuscripts
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Lot 18
CHANDLER, Raymond (1888?1959). The Simple Art of Murder. Bo...
Estimate: $100 - $200
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CHANDLER, Raymond (1888?1959). The Simple Art of Murder. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950. 8vo. Publisher?s yellowish gray cloth stamped with a yellow vertical Greek key roll to upper cover and letter in an orangish-yellow (covers lightly darkened at edges); facsimile dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. ?? [Together with:] The Simple Art of Murder. London: Hamish Hamilton, [1950]. 8vo. Publisher?s blue cloth (endpapers foxed); original unclipped dust jacket (jacket laid down on stiff stock with rubbing along spine panel). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, second impression. Bruccoli A9.1.a; A9.2.b. Chandler?s seminal critique on detective fiction.
