Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Raymond Chandler. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin, 1964.
Price: US$6.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1958 Reprint HB Houghton MIfflin; no dust jacket; good clean copy
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, Bucknell, SHROP, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin Co, 1964.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Cover worn spotted, slightly threadbare in spots on topedge, text intact but binding slightly shaken. Faint tape marks on cover; Cover worn spotted, slightly threadbare in spots on topedge, text intact but binding slightly shaken; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 332 pages
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1964.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in navy blue cloth, stamped in white. Lacks the dust jacket. A tight, clean copy of the true first edition of this 394 pp. book of short stories. One of 5000 Copies in the first edition. A tight, clean copy.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1964.
Price: US$44.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition. Originally published by Houghton Mifflin Co in the US in 1964. Some fading to the spine at the top and bottom where there is damage to the jacket. There is also a small amount of fading along the top edge of the boards. Slight browning to page edges but otherwise the book is unmarked. The jacket has some edge chipping with the worst patch of damage at the base of the spine where there is a small triangular patch of loss. Closed tears at the top and the base of the spine have been repaired by sticking two labels to the reverse. Chipping along base of spine and light wear to the corners. Jacket design by John Andrew. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Raymond Chandler. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin, Cambridge MA, 1964.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chips on front edge and top spine end.
Seller: SuzyQBooks, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Raymond Chandler. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin Co, 1964.
Price: US$49.73 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.18
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: the book is bound in blue boards with bright white letters on the front cover & spine + white umbrella on the spine. All very clean & bright. There is very, very light wear on the cover edges and corners. Stated: "First Printing". The black & green dust jacket is price clipped & has light wear on the spine tips and cover corners. one small chip on the back cover, top, near the spine, and one closed tear on the back edge. front cover bright.
Seller: Richard Peterson-Bookseller, Kingston, ON, Canada
Raymond Chandler. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin Co, 1964.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dust jacket missing. First printing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.18
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. KILLER IN THE RAIN. Houghton Mifflin & Co, Boston, Mass., 1964.
Price: US$62.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards (HB) in very good + condition with small brown spot, page tops and slightest soiling, cover. Dust jacket in good minus condition with edge wear, chips and enclosed tears. It is almost all there even the inside price, just not so pretty.First printing stated on copyright page A collection of eight stories previously unpublished in book form, most from early pulp magazines, and which contained the seeds of his early novels. 394 pages.
Seller: David Gaines, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin Co, 1964.
Price: US$67.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Raymond Chandler. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin Co, 1964.
Price: US$67.62 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1964. 1st edition. 8vo. xii,394pp. Fair book. Good dust jacket. Ex-library, else Good. (short stories, detective and mystery fiction) Inquire if you need further information.
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. KILLER IN THE RAIN. Houghton and Mifflin, 1964.
Price: US$71.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tight clean, very good+ book. Stated first printing. First American ed. Free of former owner writing or bookplates. Very good, non price clipped ($5.50) jacket. Modest shelf rub and moderate wear mostly to edges. * (THIS BOOK IS IN OUR POSSESSION. WE SHIP MOST BOOKS SIX DAYS A WEEK AND WILL CONFIRM WITH TRACKING NUMBER FOR DOMESTIC ORDERS OR CUSTOMS NUMBER FOR NON DOMESTIC) *; 8vo
Seller: Abound Book Company, Overland Park, KS, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1964.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 394 pp. Fine copy in very good dust jacket
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1964.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First US edition, near fine in a very good dust jacket. Just slight wear to the blue cloth along the bottom of the boards. The jacket has a few small chips at edges, and a little wear at stress points. There is also a tape repair on the unprinted side of the front flap fold. A collection of eight stories previously unpublished in book form, most from early pulp magazines, and which contained the seeds of his early novels. The book is tight and clean, with no names or other markings. $5.50 price on front flap of jacket is present.
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Killer In The Rain. Houghton Mifflin 1964, 1964.
Price: US$77.00 + shipping
Description: Hardback. Second printing. Near fine book with a very good plus dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has a couple of very small chips off the top of spine.
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin. New York., 1964.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG/VG. First edition, first printing. PO embossed stamps to title page. Chip to upper front corner of jacket. Original price of $5.95 intact inside jacket flap. Date (1964) on title page. 394 pp.
Seller: Limestone Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin, 1964.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition ( stated ) of this collection of Chandler's shorter works, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1964. Featuring the title story, Try the Girl, Crime in the Mountains, Lady in the Lake and others. A very good example of the book with a trace of wear to the lower extremities. Dust jacket very good with nail head sized chips to the spine ends. Dust jacket priced. ( $5.50 ) Introduction by Philip Durham.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1964.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Spine a shade darker, faint dime-sized stain on rear board, owner's name neatly penned on front fly, still very good, lacking the dustwrapper. Eight early stories which originally appeared in *Black Mask* and *Dime Detective*, and which were adapted into the first four Philip Marlowe novels.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Raymond Chandler. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin Co, 1964.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1964.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing. Blue cloth covered boards. Spine cloth has loosened, light toning to page edges, soft bump to outside corners. No markings in book. Jacket has wrinkling and chipping along edges, wear along spine fold. Not Price clipped. A collection of eight stories.
Seller: Rio Bound Books, San Marcos, TX, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Killer In The Rain. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1964.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition First Printing. Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1964. Introduction by Philip Durham. FIRST PRINTING. Both the book and the unclipped jacket are in Near Fine Condition. "Property of U.S. Army" neatly and tastefully stamped on top edge.
Seller: The Modern Library, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin Co, 1964.
Price: US$127.49 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$131.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first state jacket ($5.50 price on flap). Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket edges a bit rubbed with 1/2 inch closed tear and associated crease along top edge. 1964 Hard Cover. xi, 332 pp. "Killer in the Rain collects together eight classic short stories by Raymond Chandler. It was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that Raymond Chandler's definitive take on the hard-boiled detective story first appeared. Here then, from the well-thumbed pages of 'Black Mask' and 'Dime Detective Magazine', are eight of his finest stories including 'The Man Who Liked Dogs', 'The Lady in the Lake' and 'Bay City Blues'. Sharper than a hoodlum's switchblade, more exciting than an unexpected red-head and stronger than a double shot of whisky, they are packed full of the punchy poetry and laconic wit that makes Chandler the undisputed master of his genre." Contents: Introduction; Killer in the Rain; The Man Who Liked Dogs; The Curtain; Try the Girl; Mandarin's Jade; Bay City Blues; The Lady in the Lake; No Crime in the Mountains.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. KILLER IN THE RAIN. Houghton Mifflin Co, 1964.
Price: US$138.70 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.58
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1964.
Price: US$144.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing stated. No markings. Faint hint of spine lean. Moderate edgewear but only one tiny chip. Some classic stories that started it all. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, RAYMOND. Killer In The Rain. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1964.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book and dust jacket near fine. Jacket price intact. First edition, first printing, so stated.
Seller: Darwin Labordo, Books, Sierra Madre, CA, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond. Killer In The Rain. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1964.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 394pp. A few faint spots to top edge and front endpaper, else a tight, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.50), edgeworn, with a few closed tears and some foxing to verso; Very Good+. Collection of eight stories which first appeared in the pages of pulp magazines like Black Mask, Dime Detective, and Detective Story Magazine.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1964.
Price: US$189.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing stated. No markings. Blue cloth with white lettering still bright and fresh. Tight and square. Price intact jacket. Light edgewear with one tiny chip. Some classic stories that started it all. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. KILLER IN THE RAIN. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1964.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. Collection of eight stories, five previously uncollected. All where used in parts of his early Philip Marlowe novels, THE BIG SLEEP, FAREWELL, MY LOVELY and THE LADY IN THE LAKE. Introduction by Philip Durham. Hubin, pp. 152-153. A nearly fine copy in very good to nearly fine dust jacket with mild edge rubbing, small sliver loss to upper spine panel at front fold. (4635)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. KILLER IN THE RAIN. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1964.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. First book appearances of eight stories written by Chandler in the 1930's for pulp magazines. Introduction by Philip Durham. Spine a little shaken otherwise near fine in very good to near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with edges rubbed and few tiny nicks and tears.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1964.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. A little general wear on the boards, else near fine in very good dust jacket with rubbing and a few small creased tears. Eight early stories which originally appeared in *Black Mask* and *Dime Detective*, and which were adapted into the first four Philip Marlowe novels.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Killer In The Rain. Houghton Mifflin; Boston; 1964/1964/FP, 1964.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ; 394 pp.; DJ; F-/G; The book is slightly cocked._____In a married jacket which is somewhat edgeworn and has a pair of ½" skinned patches from each of the the jacket flaps and internal reinforcements. ____Brucolli=A14.2 [kwA_ 1st Ed. NOISBN]
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts, 1964.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1964 Houghton Mifflin TRUE First/First of the hard to find later Chandler. In NF/VG+ condition. There is the merest of a lean to the HB otherwise no other marks. the unclipped DJ has the merest of spine end and corner wear.
Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. KILLER IN THE RAIN. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition, first printing. Just about FINE in like dust wrapper with some trivial rubbing at spine ends; a very sharp copy of this book. Photos on request.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond.. KILLER IN THE RAIN.. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY., BOSTON, 1964.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Near fine in a priceclipped, otherwise very good dust jacket. (A few tiny chips at spine ends on jacket. 3"-inch tear at seam of flap. Traces of light shelf-wear at edges of jacket along with a few tears. )
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, 1964.
Price: US$270.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First printing stated on copyright page. Tight and square in blue textured cloth, an attractive copy. Jacket is price clipped and has faint toning to lettering on spine but no chips or tears. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Description: [Crime stories] FIRST EDITION (stated). Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.394. Publisher's blue cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Rob Howard, priced at $5.50. Contents and page edges clean, jacket with a little edgewear and a crease to the spine panel, neat tape reinforcement to rear. Near fine. First appearance in book form- contains short stories published in the 1930s in "Black Mask" magazine.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1964.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 394pp. Both binding and text block are rock solid, tight, clean, and unmarked, AAA all the way, save for faint spots to front endpaper and subtle rentangular tape shadows to covers, barely noticeabe. The jacket has done its job well in protecting the book, but in the process has suffered only very slight edgewear, nearly invisible as presented in mylar brodart. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.50). Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature, and is considered by many to be a founder, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers, of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, RAYMOND.. Killer In The Rain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964, 1964.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$352.76 + shipping
Description: [Modern literature] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xii; [2]; 394; [6]. Publisher's blue cloth, white titles to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Rob Howard priced at $5.50 to front flap. Light pencil annotations here and there. Gentle wear to jacket extremities. Near fine. An anthology of eight tales from the king of detective fiction. It was Chandler's wish that these stories not be reprinted or collected during his lifetime, as he had borrowed extensively from their plots to furnish/complete his other novels.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond.. KILLER IN THE RAIN.. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN. BOSTON 1964, 1964.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. Fine in . Near fine dust jacket (Faint line of shelf-soiling on bottom edge. A few tiny edge tears & spots of light shelf-wear around spine on jacket. )
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. xiv, 394 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with white lettering. Fine in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, a little scuffed at foot, else Fine. An excellent copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. (Trace of light shelf-wear at spine ends on jacket. ) Publicity photo of Raymond Chandler laid-in. (3 1/2" X 4 1/2") Stories from the pulps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 394 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin, 1964.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8 vo., 394 pages. Introduction by Philip Graham. Collection of eight short stories that appeared earlier in Black Mask, Dime Detective and Detective Story Magazine; some later became the first four Philip Marlowe novels. About fine in original blue buckram dust jacket stamped in white. Some modest rubbing at extremities, small closed tear near spine. Shipped in a box, not a padded envelope. Price reduced!!
Seller: Dubliners Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Killer in the Rain. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1964.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine copy Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket with very slight wear at the extremities, retaining the original price of $5.50. This collection of Raymond Chandler short stories from the 30s and early 40s, many from the famed Black Mask magazine, was released after his death. In fact, Chandler did not want the collection published during his lifetime because he had re-used many elements of these stories in his longer novels. In addition to the titular story, the collection includes tales such as The Man Who Liked Dogs, parts of which were featured in Farewell, My Lovely, and The Curtain, which was re-purposed in The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. "Raymond Chandler's pulp novelettes [stand high above the rest of the season], to some extent cannibalized in his novels but still important in their own right" (Contemporary New York Times review). Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Killer in the Rain", by Raymond Chandler. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964, uncorrected proof copy. 8vo. Publishers printed yellow wrappers with publishers label affixed to upper cover (some uneven toning to wraps, ownership signature to upper cover and halftitle); custom clamshell box with a roan spine label lettered in gilt. [Together with:] Killer in the Rain. London: Hamish Hamilton, [1964]. 8vo. Publishers red cloth, original dust jacket. Second impression. Killer in the Rain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. 8vo. Publishers blue linen, original dust jacket. First American edition, first printing. Together, 3 volumes including the scarce uncorrected proof of Chandlers hardboiled detective fiction title that features a collection of short stories originally published in pulp magazines between 1935 and 1941. Uncorrected proof copies of Chandler's works are increasingly rare.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands