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1958 Playback
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Description
First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
The first edition, first impression of crime writer Raymond Chandler's final completed novel.
In the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.
Published three months prior to the first US edition.
Featuring Chandler's recurring private detective Philip Marlowe, one of the most well-known characters within the genre of hardboiled crime fiction. In this work, Marlowe is hired to follow an attractive and mysterious woman who is on the run.
Of all Chandler's novels, Playback is the only one never to have been adapted into a film.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding, with clipped dust wrapper. A touch of shelf wear to back strip tail, minor bump to rear board tail, otherwise externally excellent. Chipping and small losses to dust wrapper back strip head, with closed tears and edgewear to front wrap head. Major loss towards head of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned, with a mall spot to the head of pages 47-133, not affecting text
Very Good Indeed
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