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PLAYBACK
by CHANDLER, Raymond
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Sherman Oaks, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. NEAR FINE condition in VERY GOOD dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1958. FIRST EDITION. Square and tight, original price of 12s. 6d. net intact. Bound in orange cloth with gold gilt lettering. Some age toning to pages and edges, with light foxing, plus strip of toning down each free endpaper, else FINE. Dust jacket has some scuffing, age toning, nicks, chips and tape repair to edges, plus vintage book shop sticker to back paste down. The last Philip Marlowe.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.
Synopsis
Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never herd of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it."Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence:" -- Ross MacdonaldFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- SCENE OF THE CRIME ®
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001274
- Title
- PLAYBACK
- Author
- CHANDLER, Raymond
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- NOISBN, Noir, Pulp Fiction, Hardboiled Detective, Private Eye, Scene Of The Crime
- Bookseller catalogs
- MEAN STREETS; AUTHOR A~B~C;
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About the Seller
SCENE OF THE CRIME ®
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Sherman Oaks, California
About SCENE OF THE CRIME ®
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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