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Chandler, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin, 1958.

Price: US$6.70 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Seller: Once Upon A Time Books, Siloam Springs, AR, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. PLAYBACK. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$11.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The final novel in Chandler's mystery series featuring hardboiled California private detective Philip Marlowe; edges slightly soiled, lower corners lightly bumped, no dustjacket. A decent reading copy.

Seller: H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller, Canandaigua, NY, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. PLAYBACK. Boston. Houghton Mifflin. (1958), 1958.

Price: US$12.50 + shipping

Description: BCE. HC. 190pp. Jacket by Richard J. L. Tibak. G-VG wi/very small jacket protector remains at top/btm edges on cv & ep's (most hidden under DW) in DW wi/light-mod. wrinkling that detracts lightly. A Philip Marlowe mystery.

Seller: BRIAN MCMILLAN, BOOKS, Traer, IA, U.S.A.

CHANDLER, RAYMOND. PLAYBACK a Philip Marlowe Story. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO., BOSTON, MA, 1958.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB EDITION, CLEAN COPY.

Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. Playback, A Philip Marlowe Story. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$17.50 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Well read library copy with stamps, markings with ffep and pocket removed. Edge, shelf wear. Writing on inside front board. Dust jacket in brodart. Text very good.

Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.

Raymond Chandler. Playback. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958.

Price: US$19.17 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1958. Houghton Mifflin Company . Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE DJ; Acceptable, edgewear. DJ torn. Back of DJ discoloured. DJ price clipped. Spine cracked. Pages discoloured. Some pages marked and some foxing. Rough cut pages. 8x5.

Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom

Chandler Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin, 1958.

Price: US$19.36 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: first printing

Seller: antikvariat sacher, Malmö, SKÅNE, Sweden

CHANDLER, RAYMOND. PLAYBACK. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., NY, 1958.

Price: US$19.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: BOOK CLUB EDITION, ALSO INCLUDED IS THE PAPERBACK EDITION.

Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.

Raymond Chandler. PLAYBACK. Houghton Mifflin, 1958.

Price: US$19.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Book club edition

Seller: Basement Seller 101, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin Company,, 1958.

Price: US$19.97 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Second Printing

Seller: Mark Henderson, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin, 1958.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A VG+ bright tight copy! __

Seller: Canford Book Corral, Freeville, NY, U.S.A.

Raymond Chandler. Playback. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1958.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A BCE of Chandler's last novel, adapted from a screenplay he wrote. Tan boards with red lettering and decoration. Light edge wear to the DJ. A very good copy.

Seller: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

CHANDLER, RAYMOND. Playback. Houghton Mifflin Books, USA, 1958.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 190 pages CHANDLER, RAYMOND - Playback (Houghton Mifflin Books; 1958; This BOOK CLUB Edition is the 2nd Hardcover Edition of this Title; Hardcover = FN, wear to top & bottom of spine; Dust Jacket = VG/FN, Foxing to interior DJ; edge wear to DJ; >> weight = 308 grams Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada

Raymond Chandler. Playback (A Philip Marlowe Story). Houghton Mifflin Company, U.S.A., 1958.

Price: US$24.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover is in very good condition (soiled/discolored on the text block, stamped "1977" on the top of the inside of the front cover and FFEP, torn on the blank page after page 205 and the flaps are adhered to the inside of the front and back covers, so unable to see the condition of the front and back covers and spine). Dust jacket is in very good condition (torn at the top and bottom of the spine, soiled/stained on the back cover, rubbed, edge wear and the inside flaps of the front and back covers are stuck to the boards). Brodart protected. 205 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. #80 in The Library of America Series. With humor, along with an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling details of dress and behavior, Raymond Chandler created a distinctive fictional universe out of the dark side of sunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both crime writing and the American language. Written during the war, The Lady in the Lake (1943) takes Philip Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman's missing wife expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The darker tone typical of Chandler's later fiction is evident in The Little Sister (1949), in which an ambitious starlet, a blackmailer, and a seemingly na 1995.

Seller: Lotsa Books, Fort Smith, AR, U.S.A.

Raymond Chandler. Playback: A Phillip Marlowe Mystery. Houghton Mifflin, 1958.

Price: US$24.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Book club edition

Seller: Basement Seller 101, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.

CHANDLER, RAYMOND. PLAYBACK. Houghton Mifflin, BOSTON, 1958.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The last Philip Marlowe novel. Crisp and clean in a bright jacket with a facsimile rear panel, else about fine.

Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.

Raymond Chandler. Playback. Houghton Mifflin Boston, 1958, 1958.

Price: US$26.00 + shipping

Description: Hard Cover. No Jacket. HB NODJ, X-LIBRARY, 1958, Interior Nice, Tight with few small light stains, Beige & Brown decorated Cloth cover, Cover few stickers & Spine Tear, 190 pgs, VG-/VG-, AS-IS, NODJ

Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin, 1958.

Price: US$33.50 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Stated third printing. Owner's name on half title page. There are two closed tears in jacket that appear to have been very well repaired, apparently with glue. Really nice copy.

Seller: Craig Hokenson Bookseller, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$36.00 + shipping

Description: Faint foxing to front pastedown. Light cupping to spine ends. Price clipped jacket rubbed and lightly soiled on rear panel. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Third printing of Raymond Chandler's final novel. Near fine in near fine jacket. Bookplate to the front free endpaper. Not price-clipped- price of $3.00 intact.

Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.

Raymond Chandler. Playback. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. 205 pp. Approximately 5 1/2 x 8 1/4". Illustrated dustjacket in very good plus condition, price of $3.00 on inside flap, minor creasing and edgewear. Orange cloth over boards with a slight stain on the rear cover, second printing stated on copyright page, in very good condition. A Philip Marlowe Story, published by Raymond Chandler when he was 70 years old. Philip Marlowe was most famously played by Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep, and is often described as tough and hard-drinking yet also contemplative and philiosphical. This was Chandler's last completed novel

Seller: The Book Lair, ABAA, Pleasanton, CA, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original light reddish-brown cloth (slight wear to cloth; slight internal browning to edges and endpapers). [8], 205 pages. "A Philip Marlowe Story", in which the famous detective is caught in transcontinental intrigue with a redheaded woman in tow. This copy is from the library of, and is signed / autographed by author Diana Waggoner (wrote "The Hills of Faraway : A Guide to Fantasy") on front endpaper. Barzun & Taylor #486. Well-preserved copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.

CHANDLER, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Second printing of the American edition. Fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with a single short tear on the front panel and a little rubbing. A better than usual copy of a cheaply manufactured volume.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Raymond Chandler. Playback. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A crisp, fresh copy of the 1958 stated 1st printing. Solid and VG+ (very light abrading and a touch of spotting at the front free endpaper) in a bright, VG+ dustjacket, with mild wear along the spine ends. Raymond Chandler's 7th Philip Marlowe mystery.

Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.

CHANDLER, Raymond. Playback. U.S.A / Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1958.

Price: US$51.98 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: This is an 'American Book Club' edition. / At the beginning of 1952 (some 18 months after the parting of Marlowe and Linda Loring in The Long Goodbye). Marlowe is faced with the choice of turning against his client and taking up the cause of the subject he was hired to investigate, an attractive woman on the run with whom he eventually becomes emotionally entangled. /// This is a hardback in good condition-there is a dustjacket which has pieces missing from it & it is faded & creased. (190 pages).

Seller: Bookenastics, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Raymond Chandler. Playback-a Philip Marlowe Story. Houghton, Mifflin, 1958.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. Some chipping to dust jacket, small tears present - still a sound copy. Green Apple Books and Music, Publisher Weekly's Bookstore of the Year 2014, has been San Francisco's favorite independent bookseller since 1967! Shipping costs on oversize / international orders will reflect actual shipping charges and may be more than quoted by ABE. We will need to contact you with true shipping costs and ask for authorization before adjusting cost.

Seller: Green Apple Books and Music, san francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Chandler,Raymond. Playback, a Philip Marlowe Story. Houghton Mifflin, 1958.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. Stated first printing. Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector, shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages are clean.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1958.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Light brown cloth, lettered/illus. w/ spiral design on front cover in dark brown. Slightly rubbed spine extremities. Former owner's book plate mounted on front flyleaf. Tight, square binding. 205 pp. Color illus. dust jacket is rubbed along front fold and top front corner, rubbed at spine extremities with small chip at head, light soiling, $3.00 price intact, displays well in new mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.

Raymond Chandler. Playback. Houghton Mifflin Company Boston, 1958.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Book in fine condition,Cover in very good condition with a chip out of top and bottom,see photos,price clipped

Seller: P J MCALEER, BELFAST, United Kingdom

Chandler, Raymond. PLAYBACK. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Jacket has a huge chunk missing that has been replaced by a partial facsimile. Otherwise intact over a crisp, clean book with a small dent on the bottom edge. A Philip Marlowe mystery.

Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$69.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Tan cloth titled/lined in maroon, tan topstain. Stated first printing. A square tight unmarked copy. Half title page is clipped. The unclipped DJ in mylar has edgewear/edgecreasing with wear to ends of spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. PLAYBACK. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$72.75 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Chandler's last novel featuring his celebrated, hard-boiled, private detective Philip Marlowe; First Printing of the First Edition; boards and text are clean, tight, square; price-clipped dustjacket shows minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

Seller: H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller, Canandaigua, NY, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: First American edition. 1 vols. 8vo. The final Philip Marlowe novel. Original orange cloth stamped in brown. Near fine in worn dust jacket

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Octavo, 205 pages; first printing is stated. Owner name and date on ffep. Pictorial dust jacket is price-clipped.

Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. Playback. Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1958, 1958.

Price: US$135.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 1st Ed. Near Fine VG+ dust jacket with very light edge wear. Philip Marlowe detective novel in which he is hired to meet a woman passenger at the L.A. train station without knowing why & ends up trying to find out why she's on the lam & who's out to get her. Mystery, Detective Novel, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler

Seller: Nightingale Books, stoughton, MA, U.S.A.

CHANDLER, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$140.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Tight, clean copy bound in tan cloth, stamped in brown. The dustwrapper shows some minor edgewear to spine ends and a bit of scuffing to extremes, but shows quite well protected in mylar. A well above average copy.

Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond.. Playback.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in tan cloth, in a Near Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped, clip to rear flap, with slight rubbing to crown. 205pp. Q17739

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

CHANDLER, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$162.44 + shipping

Description: 8vo, pp. 205. Original light brown boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine, concentric circle design in black to front panel. Tope edge red, leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with just a little light wear to spine ends. First US edition of this last Philip Marlowe title, and Chandler's last completed novel. HUBIN, p. 76

Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

Chandler, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$163.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Orange cloth, with the brown topstain still solid. An unmarked copy in a genty worn dust jacket. Dust soiling to the rear panel, and a trace of rubbing to the spine. A very presentable copy of the final Philip Marlowe novel. Bruccoli A 11.2.a; 205 pages

Seller: Bungalow Books, ABAA, Pueblo, CO, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. PLAYBACK. Houghton - Mifflin, 1958.

Price: US$168.20 + shipping

Description: PLAYBACK, H-M, 1958, first American edition, near fine in like dust-wrapper save for some light rubbing to the rear dust-wrapper panel.

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

CHANDLER, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First American edition. A couple of small spots on the topedge else fine in modestly rubbed very good or better dust jacket, most pronounced at the spine ends, but still a nicer that usual copy of a cheaply manufactured volume.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. PLAYBACK. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1958.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. The spine panel of this copy is stamped in silver, one of two variant bindings, no priority established. Hamish Hamilton's British edition preceded Houghton Mifflin's U.S. edition by three months. Bruccoli A11.1.a. A fine copy in very good, bright dust jacket with some shelf wear at edges, mainly head and tail of spine panel and corners, small closed tear at upper left corner of front panel, and 15mm closed tear and associated wrinkle at top edge of rear panel. (#23667)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond Thornton (1888 1959). Playback. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 205 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with dark brown lettering to spine and circles to front cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. This novel puts Marlowe in the position of turning against his client. We are at the beginning of 1952 (some 18 months after the parting of Marlowe and Linda Loring in The Long Goodbye). An unknown client hires Marlowe (via intermediaries) to follow a woman traveling under the name Eleanor King (whose real name is Betty Mayfield). Marlowe traces Mayfield to the small coastal resort town of Esmeralda in California, where he is given the runaround by practically everyone. During her train ride west, Mayfield was recognized by a man who then seeks to blackmail her, for reasons disclosed at the end of the novel. While Marlowe is poking around Esmeralda, the blackmailer is found dead on Mayfield's hotel room balcony. She panics and calls Marlowe for help. Marlowe encounters a variety of characters with dubious motivations, including a taciturn lawyer and his smart secretary (with whom Marlowe had a sexual encounter), a 'retired' gangster, overconfident would-be tough guys of varying morals, a hired killer (whose wrists Marlowe smashes), decent police officers, an affectingly desperate example of the American immigrant underclass of the 1950s. Marlowe also had a striking encounter in a hotel lobby with a reflective elderly gentleman, Henry Clarendon IV, which gives rise to an extended philosophical conversation. Marlowe learns that Betty Mayfield had been married to the son of Henry Cumberland, a big shot in a small North Carolina town. The son, Lee Cumberland, had suffered a broken neck during the Second World War and, though mobile and not paralyzed, for safety he regularly wore a neck brace. One day there was a quarrel between them, and later, the husband was found dead, with Mayfield re-fixing the neck brace on his body. The case drew widespread newspaper publicity (which is why the blackmailer recognized Mayfield on the train), and due to Cumberland's influence on the jury, the jury found Mayfield guilty of murder. But the jury's verdict was set aside by the judge, who saw more than a reasonable doubt and rejected the jury verdict as tainted. Cumberland vowed to hound Mayfield wherever she went, which is why she fled to Esmeralda; Cumberland was presumably behind Marlowe being hired in the first place. Cumberland arrives in Esmeralda to hound Mayfield in person, but with the help of the local police captain, Marlowe scares off Cumberland. (In the British edition of the novel, and the screenplay version by Chandler, Cumberland's name is Kinsolving). Mayfield decides to marry a local criminal-turned-respectable, who has taken a romantic interest in her. Marlowe lets her go ahead but has a frank talk with the ex-criminal, who obviously hasn't quite mended his ways, as he was behind the killing of the blackmailer. At the book's conclusion, Marlowe is rewarded by providence when an old flame (Linda Loring from the previous novel, The Long Goodbye), gets back in touch. Condition: Corners gently bumped. Jacket spine ends rubbed and lightly chipped else near fine in a very good to fine copy jacket.

Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. Playback. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8vo. First printing, so stated, Tan cloth with title on front cover and spine; circular designs on front panel. The half-title shows the stamp of a former owner’s name and address and some initials in ink. A few very small chips to the DJ and a small closed tear at the spine. The price is present.

Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.

Raymond Chandler. Playback. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1958.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Book in Fine condition with Near Fine dust jacket (light shelfwear to spine). Octavo. Original light brown cloth, decoration and titles to spine and front cover in black, top edge brown. Playback is a novel by Raymond Chandler featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe. It was first published in Britain in July 1958; the US edition followed in October that year. Chandler died the following year; Playback is his last completed novel.

Seller: Sam Barcelo, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 8vo., 205 pp. Fine + in VG dust jacket. "FIrst Printing" stated on copyright page. Binding and boards are in fine shape. Dust jacket is worn and rubbed at top and bottom of spine but is not nicked, torn, or soiled. Presents well as possible with somewhat lackluuster book jacket design. Shipped in a box, not a padded envelope.

Seller: Dubliners Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

CHANDLER, Raymond. PLAYBACK. , 1958.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Description: CHANDLER, Raymond. PLAYBACK. A Philip Marlowe story. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1958. First edition. 8vo., peach colored cloth. A very good copy that shows just a bit of soiling at the bottom of the boards and some light soiling and edgewear at the dust jacket; with creasing and chipping at the dust jacket crown, repaired on verso. Renowned mystery collector Adrian Homer Goldstone's copy, with his bookplate at the pastedown.

Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

Raymond Chandler. Playback (First Edition, review copy). Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's slip laid in, noting release date and and retail price. Jacket is rubbed with shallow creasing at corners and folds, with the faintest bit of foxing at the white rear panel. The last Philip Marlowe novel. Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket.

Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$413.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8vo. [9], 2-205, [3] pp. Light brown cloth with decorations and lettering in brown on the front board and spine; brown topstain. Price of $3.00 on the front flap. Ahearn APG 019c. Bruccoli A 11.2.a. Hubin 153. The UK first edition was published before the U.S. first. A tiny tear and pink 'x' to the free front endpaper; jacket is Very Good or better with a trace of rubbing.

Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.

Raymond Chandler. PLAYBACK. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$527.95 + shipping

Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Faint aged adhesive at bottom of both pastedowns and end pages. Rubbing at bottom of FEP.

Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. Playback. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1958.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: DJ in archival cover, light edge wear. Stated first edition.

Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.

CHANDLER, Raymond. PLAYBACK. Houghton Mifflin, 1958.

Price: US$6497.73 + shipping

Description: First American Edition. Original brown cloth in Richard Tiback designed dustwrapper. Author's presentation copy to Donald Yates, literary scholar and detective fiction expert. Inscribed "With kindest regards, Raymond Chandler", on the front endpaper, under Yates' ownership signature. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper that shows a little light rubbing to the spine ends. Dr. Donald Yates was professor emeritus of Spanish-American Literature at Michigan State University. He wrote extensively on the subject of detective fiction, particularly in Spanish literature and had a regular correspondence with Chandler on the subject. Inscribed Chandler is uncommon, particularly as this edition was preceded by its English counterpart.

Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom