Raymond Chandler. Smart-Aleck Kill. Hamish Hamilton, 1958.

Price: US$26.90 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1958. First Edition. 192 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth covered boards. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some tape marks and staining to surfaces. Book has marked forward lean.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

Raymond Chandler. Smart-Aleck Kill. Hamish Hamilton, 1958.

Price: US$153.70 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Collection of four novellas (Smart-Aleck Kill, Pick Up on Noon Street, Nevada Gas, Spanish Blood) taken from The Simple Art of Murder. Publisher's red boards with white lettering to spine; dust toning to top edge & faint spotting to outer edge of text block but otherwise extremely clean indeed, inside and out; endpapers & binding excellent. Only real point is that someone has used the back of the rear flyleaf to do some addition; no owner signatures etc.

Seller: The Bookshop on the Heath Ltd, London, United Kingdom

RAYMOND CHANDLER. SMART ALECK KILL. Hamish Hamilton, UK, 1958.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: a facsi

Seller: Happy Heroes, Monroe, NJ, U.S.A.

Raymond Chandler. Smart-Aleck Kill. Hamish Hamilton, 1958.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: 1958 1st edition. No U.S. edition published. VG+ in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket. Fading to the jacket spine and a bit of minor chipping along the crown and foot of the spine. A touch of soiling as well along the back panel. Still, quite a presentable, well-preserved copy. 12mo., 192 pgs.

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

Chandler, Raymond. SMART-ALECK KILL. Hamish Hamilton [1958], London, 1958.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, boards. Collects four stories which first appeared in THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER; "The Smart- Aleck Kill," "Pick Up on Noon Street," "Nevada Gas," and "Spanish Blood." Bruccoli, AA 7.1. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing, no fading to the spine panel which is a common problem with this book. An uncommon book which is scarce in this condition. (15225)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.