Description

• A scarce early printing of this sought-after Marlowe novel, written at the height of Chandler’s career
• Preceded by publication in the USA [Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1943] & First UK [also Hamish Hamilton, London, 1944]
• Second UK Printing [Hamish Hamilton, London, 1944]; 212 pages; yellow cloth, orange titling to spine, block darkened, excellent copy in very good dustjacket unclipped [8s. 6d. net], slightly chipped & rubbed, particularly at spine ends

“However hard I try to be nice I always end up with my nose in the dirt and my thumb feeling for somebody’s eye” – Classic Marlowe!