Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 5,000 copies. Octavo (22cm); dark teal cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [2],xiv,394,[6]pp. Two small scuffs to lower edge of textblock, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First Edition. First Impression, preceding the American edition by over five months. Octavo (21.5cm); red textured paper over boards, with titles stamped in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; xii,332pp. Hint of a forward lean, faint foxing to text edges and endpapers, spine ends nudged, a few..... More
Boston & Barnstable, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company / Crane Duplicating Service, Inc., 1964. First Edition. Volume gathering eight of Chandler's stories which first appeared in the pages of Black Mask, Dime Detective, and Detective Story Magazine, collected here for the first time. Uncommon in the proof state; while no hard..... More