KILLER IN THE RAIN
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964. First American Edition. Item #7341
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 (priced $5.50), showing light surface wear, some rubbing to extremities, and a few tiny tears to right edge of front flap; Near Fine. 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. Bruccoli A14.2. 7341.
Price: $150.00