Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London, 1949.
Price: US$32.02 + 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. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 249 pages. Publisher's yellow cloth-covered boards sturdy, light wear to corners, head of spine pulled, resulting in a one-quarter inch tear, foot of spine bumped, a child's scribbles in pencil at the rear board; an old price in pencil, partially erased, at the upper fore-corner of the front free endpaper, else contents unmarked. 470 grams.
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Bruccoli, A.8.2.b. Minor rubbing and soiling to bottom corners, slight soiling to top edge of text block, minimally pressed spine tips, else near fine. Full yellow cloth stamped in blue. No dust jacket
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston,, 1949.
Price: US$59.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: as pictured First Edition, a good condition hardcover, sound hngrs cloth worn at edges spine end sunned spine white fingerprint at rear. ( it was the clue to the killers ) no dust jacket,faint pencil erasure gently read clean pages
Seller: Ocean Tango Books, North Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond. Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, pinkish cloth; dj lacks lower 2 inches and top half inch of spine, separated at folds. Philip Marlowe's fifth appearance. "Marlowe is still in the groove , . his sardonic humor is running free, . his cynicism is so hard that it bounces." DJ cover panel by Boris Artzybasheff.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, MA, U.S.A., 1949.
Price: US$84.88 + shipping
Description: Reddish, orange, cloth hardcover boards. The spine is slghtly darker from being handled. Pages are tight. 249 p. 22 cm. Story features Mr. Philip Marlowe the famous private investigator. the backdrop is California--Los Angeles of the 1940's. Turn up the collar of your trench coat before you settle in for this read baby! The spine features bold lettering. the center of the front cover is decorated with a very menacing looking dagger. The borders of each of the end pages are tanned. About 10 pages have a small, irregular "foxed" mark, not quite a circle, yet not a blotch. All pages are very legible, and despite the aforementioned are clean. The publication year of 1949 appears once on the title page and is repeated on the copyright page, with no other numbers or dates appearing.
Seller: Thomas F. Pesce', Anaheim, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. THE LITTLE SISTER. Houghton Mifflin, 1949.
Price: US$87.00 + shipping
Description: THE LITTLE SISTER, Houghton-Mifflin, 1949,first edition, some age toning to the t.p.e.s and fading to the spine, else a bright vg copy in as new facsimile dust-wrapper.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$96.00 + shipping
Description: 249pp. Yellow cloth stamped in blue on the front and the spine. Light fading to top edge of cloth. A very good+ copy in good dustjacket with wear, light fading to spine panel and three old tape mends (two to the inside, one on the front panel). Dustjacket art by Boris Artzybasheff. ; Octavo.
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin, 1949.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition with the same date on the title and copyright pages. 8vo. 249 pp. Orange cloth with the blue dagger on the front panel and blue lettering on the spine. Spine is a little faded, one corner lightly bumped. Very good.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, RAYMOND. THE LITTLE SISTER. Houghton Mifflin, BOSTON, 1949.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First printing with matching dates. Lightly worn vintage copy in mustard yellow cloth boards. The first few pages have a very faint wrinkle along the bottom edge, but not greatly noticeable. There is an erased pencil signature, and book is covered in a vivid facsimile jacket. An attractive copy of a Philip Marlowe mystery.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Raymond Chandler. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin, 1949.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine hardcover with near fine unclipped dust jacket. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior.
Seller: Tall Stories Book & Print Gallery, ROCK HILL, SC, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond.. The Little Sister.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 247 pp. 8vo, publisher's yellow cloth in dust jacket. Later edition. Small label removed from front endpaper; a few brown spots to endsheets; otherwise a very good copy in a jacket with chipping to the extremities of the spine, eliminating the first name of the author, and just affecting the second word of the publisher's imprint.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, hardcover in orange cloth, has a mild lean to the binding, slight bumps to spine ends and cover corners, moderate sunning to the spine and cover edges, some minor rubbing to the covers, and a previous owner's name written to head of first free endpage, otherwise a solid, tight VG copy.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition, first issue cloth. [vi], 249 pp. Publisher's red cloth stamped in navy blue. Very Good with a bit of sunning to spine, slight lean to spine, a few tiny black stains to back board, lacking jacket. Chandler's fifth novel to feature Philip Marlowe.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. In the first-issue deep orange cloth. Small, light stain on front board, and a narrow strip of sunning at top of front board, very good or a little better lacking the dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Little Sister. A Philip Marlowe Crime Novel. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, USA, 1949.
Price: US$153.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A nice clean copy of a very uncommon 1st edition of a detective fiction classic. Dustwrapper lacks its spine, so front and rear panels & inner flaps only. Edges of these a little worn & minor chips but still presentable. Dustwrapper remains have tape repairs to rear
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 249pgs. orange cloth. book rental stamp on the front endpaper. toning to the endpapers. Jacket flaps have been glued to the endpapers. light foxing to the text, otherwise clean, unmarked. Unclipped pictorial jacket appears to be trimmed on both end. Looks okay in Brodart with a minimum of rental library markings. Survives collectible.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$176.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The true first edition in red cloth stamped in blue. Housed in dustwrapper that shows the following flaws: "CHA" written in white pen on spine, above which is a sticker removal mark. Front d.w. flap has 10 lines of text affected (the last 1/4 missing). Tape reinforcement to bottom edge. Some light wear to spine ends. Despite all of these flaws, the book shows reasonably well in the dustwrapper (now in mylar). Ref.: Bruccoli - A.8.2.a.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1949, 1949.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd U.S. Printing VG in VG- dust jacket with spine chips & edge wear. Philip Marlowe detective novel in which he is hired by a country girl to find her missing brother & his investigation leads him to movie queens, blackmailers 7 murder. Mystery, Detective Novel, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler
Seller: Nightingale Books, stoughton, MA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949.
Price: US$211.34 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good plus to near fine first-state orange cloth (light stain to gutters and a small bookseller's ticket to the ffep) in a very good dust-wrapper which has a chip to the head of the spine, taking the author's first name, and a few closed tears.
Seller: Mark Sutcliffe, Grayshott, HAMPS, United Kingdom
Raymond Chandler. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$219.25 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First US edition. Publisher's first-state orange cloth, spine and front stamped in blue. Spine ends slightly pushed, trace of shelf wear, some pages roughly cut. 249 pp. A near fine copy in facsimile dust jacket with slight wear that's now protected in mylar cover.
Seller: Concept Books, Veldhoven, Netherlands
CHANDLER, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. In the first-issue deep orange cloth. Slight soiling on the boards, very light foxing on topedge, near fine lacking the dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond. LITTLE SISTER. BOSTON, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, 1949, 1949.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NO DUST JACKET FIRST AMERICAN EDITION VERY GOOD
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin, 1949.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: Slightly cocked, red/ coral cloth. Jacket with light edge wear an 1/8 chip at spine tips. Not price clipped. A collectible copy
Seller: California Bookseller - J. R. Aboud, Carmel Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition, first printing. Original orange cloth dust marked along bottom 1/2" of front board only, NEAR FINE in Boris Artzybasheff dust jacket which is trimmed about slightly at top and bottom edge, minor sunning to spine. Digital pics of any of our books available on request.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. In the first-issue deep orange cloth. Foxing on the pages with the spine faded, near fine in a good only dustwrapper with large chips in the spine, tears, and tape repairs. Although not marked in any way, from the library of Steven Heller, renowned art director as well as author of *Jackets Required: An Illustrated History of American Book Jacket Design*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: No DJ first edition first state. Fraying to spine end and stamp on bottom edge of pages.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. THE LITTLE SISTER. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Mass, 1949.
Price: US$358.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. First American edition in first state binding. Orange boards with blue graphic to front board, blue . lettering to spine. Slight rubbing to extremities. One small corner nudge to bottom rear corner. Bright and bold Dustjacket design by Boris Artzybasheff, and original $2.50 price to front flap. Dustjacket shows edgewear to spine caps and along folds, with a l.75" x .50" chip extending from top of spine to rear panel. Bright, sharp copy. "When the reader.comes up for air, he doesn't know whether he's been on a two-day reefer jag, or given a mauling by the Bay City cops, or blinded by the neon-lighted slum called Hollywood." (front flap notes).
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
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. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition, first printing. One of 12,500 copies. Publisher's reddish orange cloth, stamped in dark blue to front board and lettered in dark blue to spine; in the original pictorial dust jacket designed by Boris Artzybasheff. A near fine copy with a slight lean to the spine, spine ends with some fading; unclipped dust jacket about very good, with shallow chipping along edges, some loss to the spine ends (affecting "Raymond" and partially to the "N" in "Mifflin"), early tape reinforcements to jacket verso, mostly along spine. A good or better copy. The Little Sister is the fifth detective novel in Chandler's series featuring his protagonist Detective Philip Marlowe, "the most exciting high-velocity private investigator in the business." Unlike Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op and Sam Spade, who are widely considered the archetypal hard-boiled detective figures, Marlowe possesses a sensitivity underneath his tough exterior that distinguishes him from similar detective characters in the genre. Like many of Chandler's novels, The Little Sister is set in Los Angeles and the novel illuminates much of the day to day life in that city. Specifically, The Little Sister involves Hollywood and the film industry, focusing on the younger sister of a rising starlet. Despite the slightly more sensitive nature of Chandler's detective, The Little Sister is classic hard-boiled detective fiction with all of the austerity and ruggedness that hallmarks the genre. As the dust jacket proclaims, "Chandler is the master is of his own brand of vernacular and sets it down as if he were a divinely appointed recording angel to the tough guy."
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. THE LITTLE SISTER. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$480.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 249 pages; VG-/G+; multi-colored illustrated spine, white/yellow text; jacket has protective mylar cover, peeling and tape residue on inside flaps, rubbing, chipping around edges, back of flap has been colored with black marker to try to hide chipping, slight peeling on back; boards are strong, rubbing and staining around edges, minor fraying at spine tail, spine slightly cocked; textblock has edgewear, age toning, some spotting throughout, peeling on pastedowns, small stamp on front pastedown, writing on front endpaper, tape residue on both endpapers, text clean, binding strong; FLP Collection; shelved case 6, Dupont. 1284539. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond.. The Little Sister.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 249 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Almost fine; in a jacket with two pieces of clear tape on verso at the extremities of the spine, where there is some minor rubbing and use; tiny tears and creasing to the top of the rear panel.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Chandler RAYMOND. THE LITTLE SISTER. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, 1949.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A VERY GOOD FIRST IN DJ. 1st ed. 1st Am. Ed. 1st issue, Boston. 1949. l red cloth fine in a dust jacket by Boris Artzybasheff price clipped.
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, RAYMOND.. The Little Sister. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1949, 1949.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. A very good copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with some minor wear and slight spine fading. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, RAYMOND.. The Little Sister. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1949, 1949.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. A bright, 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.
Raymond Chandler. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin, 1949.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The Little Sister" by Raymond Chandler. Houghton Mifflin, 1949 first American edition first printing. 8vo, publisher's red-orange cloth; unclipped dust jacket, folds rubbed, top edges with small chips and creasing, spine panel sunned with closed tears and chipping touching letters at head; some discoloration to endpapers, else contents clean.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
CHANDLER, Raymond.. The Little Sister.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: 249 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First American edition. A near fine copy in an attractive jacket with a few short tears and some use to the extremities of the spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Raymond Chandler. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin, 1949.
Price: US$649.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, First Printing (Date of 1949 on title page). Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1949. Octavo. Orange cloth boards stamped in light blue. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Binding tight and pages crisp. Corners sharp and spine straight. Has two tiny puncture marks on spine above the center; likely from a staple. Some light offsetting to endpapers. Dust jacket is very good; price-clipped with some light edge wear and a few nicks/chips. Two corresponding puncture marks to spine. A lovely copy of this vintage noir thriller, Chandler's 5th novel. Vintage jacket art by Boris Artzybasheff. 249 pages. Book has been placed in a custom acetate protector. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
Seller: Southampton Books, Southampton, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: TITLE: THE LITTLE SISTER By RAYMOND CHANDLER 1949 First Edition rare AUTHOR: RAYMOND CHANDLER PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) /COPYRIGHT: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, BOSTON 1949 EDITION: First Edition CATEGORY: First Edition, Rare BINDING/COVER: Hardback with dust jacket COLOR: Reddish Orange CONDITION: The jacket is in fair condition with a chip to the front bottom hinge area; there are some chips to the top edge; there is what appears to be a price tag pull imprint to the upper front and back area; there is a split to the top back corner edge. The $2.50 price is still on the front flap. There is a really small wax like flake to the upper area of the front board. There is a name written in black ink on the inside board. Book is without other marks or writings, pages are clean, and book is tight and sturdy. SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately) PAGES: 247 pages. Good-/Fair dust jacket condition. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: First Edition. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, BOSTON 1949. There are some first edition copies of this book by Houghton Mifflin selling in the $3,000 range on the internet at the time of this research!! COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid, books will ship immediately without email notification to customer (it's on the way), you are welcomed to email about shipment date! REFUNDS: All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 14 business days after item is received. InvCodePrc 550 E H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: 006251
Seller: ViewFair Books, Live Oak, FL, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1949.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A very nice copy without defects. The jacket shows minor wear at the edges and very minor chipping at the spine ends. DJ is in Brodart jacket protector. All dust jackets are in Mylar acid-free protectors.; 8vo
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin, 1949.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8 vo., 249 pp. First American Edition with publisher's orange-red cloth. A fine copy (minor foxing to endleaves) in a Very Good jacket with some slight fading and chipping to top of spine and rubbing to edges. Shipped bubble wrapped in a box, not a padded envelope. Price reduced!!
Seller: Dubliners Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. THE LITTLE SISTER. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition, preceded by the UK edition. Pin prick to front gutter otherwise crisp and near fine in about very good price-clipped dust jacket with shallow rubbed chipping to spine ends and corners and two old tape repairs on verso.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister.. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first state, of Chandlerâs fifth hard-boiled novel featuring his iconic private eye, Philip Marlowe. Octavo, original orange cloth. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket by Boris Artzybasheff. To Raymond Chandler, whose novels helped define the hard-boiled novel, crime stories âbelong âto a world gone wrong,â but âdown these mean streets a man must go who is himself not meanâ (Bruccoli & Layman). Novelist Robert Parker said: âI learned to write from Raymond Chandler⦠The second paragraph of The Little Sister reads this way: âIt was one of those clear, bright summer mornings we get in the early spring in California before the high fog sets in. The rains are over. The hills are still green and in the valley across the Hollywood Hills you can see snow on the high mountains. The fur stores are advertising their annual sales. The call houses that specialize in sixteen-year-old virgins are doing a land-office business. And in Beverly Hills the jacaranda trees are beginning to bloomâ¦â It is quintessential Chandler. The careful juxtaposition of things gives us both a visual and a moral sense of place. We are reminded of the green land where promise once abounded, and we are reminded of whatâs become of it. We are also given a clear image of the kind of man we are meetingâ¦â (Reilly, 286). It was the basis for the 1969 film titled Marlowe, starring James Garner.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine first edition in a very good dust jacket. Year 1949 on both title page and copyright page and no mention of later printings. Original price of $2.50 still on front flap of dust jacket. The British first edition preceded the American. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine copy of the book in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Orange cloth still bright and fresh, clean internally. Dust jacket with a few chips and small tears at the crown and some sunning to the spine. The fifth in Chandler's gritty Philip Marlowe series, Little Sister follows the private investigator to Los Angeles. There, Marlowe wades into the scandal surrounding a Hollywood starlet and her missing brother. Blackmail, drugs, and murder aren't far behind. This particular episode in Marlowe's arc has been noted for drawing on Chandler's own experiences as a screenwriter; and many of the grittier details reflect his low opinion of the film industry and its participants. Fine in Very Good + dust jacket.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 249pp. Red cloth, title in blue on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, faint toning to endpapers, a near fine example. In publisher's dust jacket, price-clipped, limited professional restoration along top edge, bright illustrations, a very good example. (Bruccoli A8.2.a) Housed in a custom brown cloth clamshell with marbled interior. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was a popular American-British crime and mystery writer. All but one of his seven novels have been made into movies, including The Little Sister (titled Marlowe) which was adapted in 1969. Ironically, Chandler was inspired by his general dislike of and experiences with Hollywood and the entertainment industry to write The Little Sister, which takes place in late 1940s Los Angeles.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond.. The Little Sister.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: 249 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First American edition. A fine, fresh, unworn copy in an unrestored jacket with slight sunning to the red portion of the spine (much less than usually seen). The top of the backstrip is very slightly used. A very attractive copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond.. The Little Sister.. Houghton Mifflin, 1949.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine tight copy in a Very Good plus price-clipped dust jacket with shallow chipping to the head & heel of the spine. This is Chandler's fifth novel, first published in an edition of 12,500 copies. In The Little Sister, a movie starlet with a gangster boyfriend and a pair of siblings with a shared secret lure private eye Philip Marlowe into the less than glamorous and more than a little dangerous world of Hollywood fame. Chandler's first foray into the industry that dominates the company town that is Los Angeles.
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, RAYMOND.. THE LITTLE SISTER.. Houghton Mifflin Company,1949., Boston, 1949.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: First U. S. edition. First issue binding in deep orange cloth (later yellow), with titles and decorations stamped in dark blue on spine and front cover. Fine, bright copy in a bright dust jacket designed by Boris Artzybasheff, with some minor professional restoration at the edges. An exceptional copy with the sensitive spine colors bright and completely unfaded. A young woman, beautiful and in trouble, asks private eye Marlowe for help. She needs to find her brother, a small-town boy who's lost his way in the big city. She's not quite what she claims to be, and the brother isn't what he should have been. As the story progresses, Hollywood and all the people in it lose their shine and get darker and dirtier. And then the bodies begin to pile up . The author's fifth novel featuring detective Philip Marlowe. Basis for Paul Bogart's 1969 film Marlowe, starring James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, and Carroll O'Connor, with a brief role by Bruce Lee.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is vibrant in color with minor wear to the edges. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A beautiful copy in collector's condition. We buy Raymond Chandler First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Raymond Chandler. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$3202.16 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An exceptional copy of the first US edition of Raymond Chandler's fifth Philip Marlowe detective novel. The first US edition, first impression of Raymond Chandler's 1949 novel, published three months after the first UK edition.In the exceptionally bright price clipped illustrated dust wrapper, designed by Boris Artzybasheff.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 clipped illustrated dust wrapper. Externally, exceptionally bright, with shelf wear to back strip head. Dust wrapper a touch sunned to back strip. Shelf wear to back strip head, with small closed tears. Light marks to rear wrap. Tape reinforcements to reverse of dust wrapper at back strip head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition, first issue cloth. [vi], 249 pp. Publisher's red cloth stamped in navy blue. Edges a little foxed and dust-soiled, offsetting to endpapers, else Fine and bright. The pictorial dust jacket is remarkable for being completely unsunned and rich in color-- especially the spine panel, which invariably appears yellowed and dulled in other copies. The head of the jacket is a little worn and there is a bit of dust soiling, light foxing to verso, and minor shelf wear, but it is unclipped ($2.50) and, best of all, unsophisticated; it has had no work done to it. The copy to beat of the classic Philip Marlowe mystery.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Unclipped DJ in archival cover First American Edition. A bright, fine copy in a dust jacket with edge wear, small chips, small piece of tape on rear, and tiny tears.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Raymond Chandler. The Little Sister. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Beautiful as new book of original orange cloth with blue titles on spine, and sword on cover. Bright and vivid dust jacket with the slightest of rubbing at extremities, otherwise fine condition. Price clipped. Housed in striking custom clamshell box of orange and black, with the title written on leather on spine. Fifth novel in the Phillip Marlowe hardboiled detective series, The Little Sister was the first novel Chandler wrote after working as a screenwriter for Paramount in Hollywood, and it reflects his disdain for the film industry. This book is considered one of his masterpieces. Dealer discounts available. Inquiries welcome.
Seller: Antiquarian Archives, Lakewood, NJ, U.S.A.
Raymond Chandler. THE LITTLE SISTER. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$4277.85 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Near Fine slipcase. Dust jacket clean with vibrant colors.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A stunning copy. This ORIGINAL sophisticated dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears. The book is in excellent condition. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A fabulous copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.