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Raymond Chandler. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton, 1949.

Price: US$11.70 + shipping

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Seller: The Small Library Company, London, United Kingdom

CHANDLER RAYMOND. Farewell My Lovely. Hamish Hamilton, 1949.

Price: US$13.65 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1949 new edition, 8vo., 196pp., small address label on rear endpaper, front endpaper a little marked, good, grey cloth, only top half of torn dust jacket present.

Seller: Wyseby House Books, Newbury, WEST, United Kingdom

CHANDLER, Raymond. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton. London: December 1949. Second Impression, London, 1949.

Price: US$22.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: (256pp). Covers lightly marked, endpapers and prelims foxed, marginal foxing last 4 pages, fore-edge lightly foxed. On the whole a very clean, firm, unmarked copy in excellent condition Size: Octavo

Seller: C.P. Collins Booksellers, Leichhardt, NSW, Australia

Raymond Chandler. The Little Sister (in fdj). Hamish Hamilton, 1949.

Price: US$23.39 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: first edition first impression from 1949 in Vg condition, the front blank endpage has the corner cut off (2cm) no other internal markings. pages clean, binding has a slight lean. Jacket is a facsimile, now in removable protective sleeve. Please see pics.

Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom

Raymond Chandler. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton, 1949.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition hardback, no dustjacket red cloth covered boards. Slight fading and twist to spine. Foxing to endpapers and page edges otherwise internally clean. Good condition.

Seller: Buckle's Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom

CHANDLER RAYMOND. THE LITTLE SISTER. Hamish Hamilton, 1949.

Price: US$28.73 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: RO60122690: 1949. In-12. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 256 pages. Dos insolé. Annotations en page de garde (ex-libris). Jaquette manquante. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France

Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949, London, 1949.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Description: Good Only. First Edition. First UK edition of this classic, offered as a rebinding copy. Cloth is grubby and faded but its pretty good internally. The faults are a couple of small coffee stains and one tiny burn mark from cigarette ash affecting the margins of three sheets. Could this have been Marlowe's own copy?

Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom

Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London, 1949.

Price: US$32.49 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First UK edition of a novel originally published in the US by Houghton Mifflin earlier in the same year. The spine and the lettering on it are both quite faded and there is a spine lean. Small faded patch to the top left hand corner of the front panel and a little staining towards the top of the rear panel. Light browning to page edges. Light spotting to endpapers but pages otherwise clean and unmarked. First printing. No jacket.

Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom

Raymond Chandler. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1949.

Price: US$38.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First UK Edition which precedes US First Edition. Red cloth, gilt titles and publisher's device to spine. Light wear, fading and ridging of spine, some weakening of front hinge but a good plus copy of the genuine first edition. No dust-jacket but photocopy of dust-jacket image tipped in.

Seller: beckfarmbooks, HOLT, Norfolk, United Kingdom

Chandler, Raymond. The little sister. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1949.

Price: US$44.55 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 256 pag - first UK edition - stamp on the titlepage and stamp on the inner site of first free end paper (see photo's) Size: 7D3

Seller: Von Meyenfeldt, Slaats & Sons, Breda, Netherlands

Chandler, Raymond Thornton (1888-1959). The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1949.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 256 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. (Bruccol: XI) First English edition which precedes the American. The Little Sister is a 1949 novel by Raymond Chandler, the fifth in his popular Philip Marlowe series. The story is set in late 1940s Los Angeles. The novel centers on the little sister of a Hollywood starlet and has several scenes involving the film industry. it was partly inspired by Chandler's experience working as a screenwriter in Hollywood and his low opinion of the industry and most of the people in it. Chandler, along with Dashiell Hammett, defined the hardboiled school of detective fiction, popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask. The hardboiled school was an alternative to the traditional murder mysteries of people like Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Unlike the mannered, complex plots typical of these authors, the hardboiled stories moved "murder out of the Venetian vase and into the alley" and "gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not with hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare, and tropical fish." One thing that distinguished Chandler's hero Philip Marlowe even from his other hardboiled peers is that Marlowe often doesn't apprehend the criminal or explain every plot point at the end of the novel. Marlowe is a witness to events, and, at most, able to manipulate them in subtle ways to balance the scales of justice a bit. Nowhere is this more apparent than in The Little Sister. Marlowe is always arriving too late to prevent a murder or catch the criminal. Even at the very end when he has finally solved the complex riddle of the case, his last act is simply to notify the police too late and let events take their course. Condition: Spine sunned, some bumps to heal edges, previous owner's initials on front end paper else a very good copy lacking jacket.

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

Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1949.

Price: US$71.48 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hardcover, covers rubbed and lightly marked, name rubbed out on rep, otherwise Good+ in Fair dustjacket with edge loss, and tape marks at spine ends and at top corner of front fla.

Seller: John Stoodley, Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom

Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton, 1949.

Price: US$77.97 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hardcover, covers rubbed, spine ends and rear cover are faded, otherwise Good in Fair dustjacket with edge loss, and pink markings at lower spine and at the side.

Seller: John Stoodley, Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom

CHANDLER, Raymond. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1949.

Price: US$83.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: London, Hamish Hamilton, 1949 [first British edition]. Octavo, 256 pages. Red cloth slightly marked and bumped (on two edges); spine very lightly sunned; a very good copy (internally excellent).

Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia

CHANDLER, Raymond. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1949.

Price: US$95.01 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Red cloth titled in gilt on spine. Tight and square, part faded at the spine, faint cup ring on rear board, gift inscription in front, clean pages. The dust jacket is a professionally made facsimile, protected in an archival cover.

Seller: Mainly Fiction, Auckland, New Zealand

Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First British edition of Chandler's fifth novel. Small 8vo in publisher's red cloth. Near Fine with some fading to the spine and minor foxing to the end sheets. Otherwise tight, square and unmarked. A lovely copy of a great private eye novel.

Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada

Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. London: Hamish Hamilton/Star Editions, 1949.

Price: US$160.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st printing thus. Binding tight; pages clean; spine creased; cardstock wraps show a touch of wear, tiny mark at bottom of front cover, and faint crease to rear bottom corner. The author's fifth novel. From a startlingly uncommon series, intended for sale only in Europe. 5 x 7-1/4". 256 pages.

Seller: Washington Square Autographed Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1949.

Price: US$195.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The Star Editions issue, for sale in Europe only, being the third printing of the first edition (Bruccoli A8.1.c). With the scarce jacket over the printed wrappers. "First published in Great Britain 1949" is the only indication of date.

Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. London: Hamish Hamilton, [1949]., 1949.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Second impression, December, 1949. 12mo, 256pp, publisher’s red cloth stamped in silver at spine (somewhat vertical crease down spine, toning, mild edgewear, scattered foxing most visible to first few pages and bulked edges, light dusting to bulked edges, small bookseller label attached at one side to rear paste-down, perhaps very good). Pictorial dust jacket, 2nd impression stated at front flap, later price sticker over original price at front flap (closed tears, creases, rubbing, chips to extremities with small loss, tape repair at verso, else good).

Seller: Joe Maynard, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.

Raymond Chandler. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London, 1949.

Price: US$292.40 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Finely Bound in maroon morocco over marbled boards. New endpapers. Internally pages are slightly age toned and there are occasional spots and marks but overall very clean. A superb bound copy of the first edition, first printing of the fifth Philip Marlow novel.

Seller: Moriarty's, Grimsby, LINCO, United Kingdom

CHANDLER, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.

Price: US$440.00 + shipping

Description: First Printing, one of 12,500 copies. Octavo (21.5cm); first binding in red-orange cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],249,[1]pp. Hint of a lean, gentle sunning to spine ends, with some faint staining to lower margins ot pp.98-99; Very Good+ or better. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), spine-sunned, edgeworn, with several nicks, tears, and attendant creases; some vertical creasing to flaps, with old tape marks to flap edges, and a small patch of tape to rear panel; Good to Very Good. Chandler's fifth novel, first published in London by Hamish Hamilton, which precedes the US edition by three months. BRUCCOLI A8.2.a; HUBIN, p.75.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

CHANDLER Raymond. The Little Sister. [First UK Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER. Hamish Hamilton, [1949], 1949.

Price: US$551.01 + shipping

Description: 8vo., First Edition thus; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges, and with loss at upper edge of front panel and tail of backstrip. In the image a facsimile dustwrapper is laid loosely behind the original. Chandler's penultimate Marlowe novel. The UK first edition precedes the US edition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom

CHANDLER Raymond. The Little Sister. [First UK Edition]. IN FULL MOROCCO. Hamish Hamilton,, 1949.

Price: US$608.19 + shipping

Description: 8vo., First Edition thus; elegantly bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Chandler's penultimate Marlowe novel. The UK first edition precedes the US edition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION

Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Raymond Chandler. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1949.

Price: US$682.26 + shipping

Description: A handsome copy of the true first edition of Raymond Chandler's fifth Philip Marlowe detective novel. The first edition, first impression of Raymond Chandler's 1949 novel, published three months prior to the first US edition.In the bright price unclipped illustrated dust wrapper, designed by C.W. Bacon.Set in Los Angeles in the 1940s, the novel follows private investigator Philip Marlowe's investigation of a missing persons case and blackmail scheme centred around a Hollywood starlet. The novel was partly inspired by Chandler's own experience working as a screenwriter in Hollywood, and his low opinion of the industry and those who worked in it.A wonderful copy of Chandler's fifth novel featuring Marlowe, one of the most well-known characters within the genre of hardboiled crime fiction. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with light fading to back strip. Contemporary inscription to front free endpaper. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip. Losses to back strip head and tail, and further small loss to tail of front wrap. Light marks to rear wrap. Significant tape reinforcements to wrap reverse at back strip head and tail, and head and tail of flyleaf folds. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

CHANDLER, Raymond. The little sister. Hamish Hamilton, 1949.

Price: US$714.75 + shipping

Description: 1st UK edition, 1st printing, in red cloth. Faint foxing on end papers & page fore-edge; text clean; binding tight; gilt lettering on spine a little oxydised. Dust jacket not price-clipped, but a little worn at edges, with tape repairs on verso; dj protected in removable clear film Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket

Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Raymond Chandler. The Little Sister in Cosmopolitan, April 1949 (Volume 126, issue 4). Hearst Magazines, New York, 1949.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: The first appearance of the novel, in an abridged pre-publication format, preceding the version published by Hamish Hamilton in the UK later the same year, and the US edition, published just after that. Chandler's fifth novel, written after several years working as a screenwriter, and dripping with his contempt for Hollywood. Basis for the 1969 neo-noir "Marlowe," directed by Paul Bogart and starring James Garner. Very Good plus in wrappers, with fraying and small closed tears to the spine. Partial vintage address label on the front wrapper.

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

Chandler, Raymond.. THE LITTLE SISTER.. HAMISH HAMILTON. LONDON 1949, 1949.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Precedes American Ed. Fine in a very good dj. (Top inch of spine on dj. chipped. Loss of "The" in title. A few far smaller chips & edge tears in dj.)

Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

Chandler, Raymond. THE LITTLE SISTER. Hamish Hamilton [1949], London, 1949.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. The fifth Philip Marlowe novel. A mystery novel with a Hollywood connection. Filmed in 1969 as "Marlowe" with Jame Garner. Brucolli, Raymond Chandler, A8.1.a. Hubin, p. 152. Foxing to page edges and early and late leaves, some soiling and light stains to covers, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with some edge rubs, mild wear to base of spine panel, small chipping at head of spine panel, mild darkening to spine panel and soiling to rear panel. The front panel image is nice and bright. (30823)

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

Raymond Chandler - FIRST EDITION HARDBACK - RARE. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton London, 1949.

Price: US$922.68 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: This English hardback First Edition is the TRUE first, preceding the American first printing by three months. Publisher's red cloth, strongly coloured but a bit soiled, gilt titles to spine still fresh looking. The book has obviously been kept in its jacket. And what a jacket! A justly celebrated pictorial dust-jacket designed by C.W. Bacon, priced at 8s. 6d. J. B. Priestley's advance copy review is reproduced on the back of the jacket. There is a small loss to the bottom of the jacket's spine, some chafing and creasing here and there, but the impression here is what the collector seeks; the artwork is not faded. The jacket is protected in its mylar sleeve and it really is a treat. This is the best copy I have come across. Text block clean and tight, no discoloration. Crisp and clear type. A truly collectable copy of a book that is notoriously difficult to find as such. For many, this is THE classic Philip Marlowe novel.

Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom

Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton, 1949.

Price: US$975.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hamish Hamilton, London., 1949. First edition. Precedes the U.S. edition. Octavo. 256 pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket, price-clipped, some foxing on page edge, one inch closed tear on top of spine of dust jacket along joint.

Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.

KRIMI. - CHANDLER, Raymond.. The Little Sister.. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1949., 1949.

Price: US$3279.91 + shipping

Description: London, Hamish Hamilton, 1949. 8°. 256 Seiten / pages. OLeinen mit Rückentitel in Gold. Farbig illustr. OUmschlag. - Original cloth with dust jacket Erste Ausgabe. - Erste und letzte Seiten sowie im Schnitt stockfleckig, Umschlag mit kleinen Randläsuren. Insgesamt sehr schönes Exemplar. - (True) First edition of a very good plus copy ( a little foxing to endpapers and page-edges) in slightly edge-worn original very good plus dust jacket . Scarce. Sprache: Englisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***

Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, Austria

Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1949.

Price: US$6500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Raymond Chandler on a laid in signature. A wonderful copy. This First Issue dustjacket is rich in color with light wear to the spine and edges. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.