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The Lady in the Lake
by Chandler, Raymond
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. First edition of The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler.. Octavo, 216pp. Green cloth boards, title stamped in green on spine and front cover. Stated "first edition" with no additional printings listed on copyright page. Slight lean to text block, touch of wear to cloth at top edge of spine, a near fine example. In publisher's dust jacket, $2.00 retail price on front flap, closed tear along front flap fold, chip to rear flap, faint toning to spine, light soiling to rear panel. Housed in a custom black cloth clamshell case. (Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 64) An attractive example. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was a popular American-British crime and mystery writer. Six of his seven novels have been adapted into films, including The Lady in the Lake in 1947. Jacques Barzun, co-author of A Catalogue of Crime, called this novel "Chandler's masterpiece.
Synopsis
Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing – on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe's on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake ...
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12339
- Title
- The Lady in the Lake
- Author
- Chandler, Raymond
- Illustrator
- First edition of The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- Raymond Chandler, Raymond Chandler first edition, Raymond Chandler signed, Raymond Chandler The Lady in the Lake, The Lady in the Lake, The Lady in the Lake first edition, The Lady in the Lake signed, The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, Humphrey Bogar
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