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Condition: Good. World Publishing Company 1944 hand soiling to blue cloth boards. age toned spine. hinges of boards cracked. pages browned. G-.
Published by The World Pub. Co., 1945
Seller: Go4Books, St. Cloud, MN, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Warner Brothers and R.K.O. (illustrator). Forum Books Edition. Wartime paper is tanned. Black cloth hardcover with gilt gold is worn on spine. Contains The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely. Illustrated with scenes from the movies.
Published by The World Publishing Company
Seller: Basement Seller 101, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Book
hardcover. Condition: Good. Second Printing.
Published by The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York, 1945
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. Raymond Chandler's Mystery Omnibus by Raymond Chandler A firm square copy with rubbing to the spine ends. Tanned pages. No Jacket present. Second Printing June 1945. Endpapers and double-sided frontis illustrated with movie stills. Black cloth stamped gilt. Omnibus. THE BIG SLEEP and FAREWELL, MY LOVELY (Murder, My Sweet). BOOK.
Published by The World Publishing, 1940
Seller: September Books, CHURCH STRETTON, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. APPEARS LITTLE READ. Little wear to hard back book. Pages are clean, tanned and tight. No name or inscription.No date , circa 1940s.Front and rear hinges have cracked.
Published by The World Publishing Company, New York, 1944
Seller: Gyre & Gimble, Holden, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Stated First Printing. Navy cloth w/light blue. Front endpaper has a chip. Pages browned w/age (wartime paper) Spine is weak, slightly sunned. Corners bumped, shelfwear head and heel of spine. Deckled edge. Contains The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely.
Published by World Publishing, 1944
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Reprint of the two classic Chandler novels. 'First printing June 1944' stated. 8vo in navy cloth, titles and devices in light blue, top edge stained grey. Binding tight and sqaure, small white stain on the foredge, light white streak along the front gutter, one small white stain on the rear board. The corners of the dustjacket are rubbed through, shallow chipping at the spine ends, shallow chipping and creassing at the top of the front panel, short tape reapair at the atop left of the rear panel, penny-sized chip at the top of the rear panel.
Published by The World Publishing Company, Cleveland, 1945
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second printing. Illustrated with scenes from the films. Toning on the pages and bumped corners else about near fine in a good dust jacket with internal tape repairs, fading on the spine, and creasing.
Published by The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York, 1945
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). The first edition, second printing thus of these two Raymond Chandler mysteries turned hit films, enclosed in the original scarce dust wrapper. Two thrilling mystery novels by highly successful and influential American-British novelist Raymond Chandler, bound together as the 'Mystery Omnibus'.The Big Sleepis the first novel to feature detective Philip Marlowe and is set in Los Angeles. Through the course of the novel, many characters double-cross each other, revealing secrets and becoming increasingly complex. The title is a euphemism for death, and dying is referred to many times in the novel as 'sleeping the big sleep'.Farewell, My Lovely (Murder, My Sweer) is the second of Chandler's novels to feature Philip Marlowe, who is investigating a murder that occurred at a nightclub. It was originally published in 1940.The Big Sleepwas adapted into a 1946 film starring Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, whileFarewell, My Lovely (Murder, My Sweet)was adapted into a 1944 film starring Dick Powell and Claire Trevor. This work contains numerous illustrations from photographs taken during filming of both of these movies.This is the first edition, second printing thus of this work, enclosed in the original scarce dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, and minor shelf wear to the boards. Original unclipped dust wrapper has some edgewear and chipping to the extremities, particularly to the head and tail of the backstrip. A few amateur tape repairs to the interior of the wrap. Some light spotting to the interior of the wrap. Internally, front hinge is very lightly strained, remaining binding is firm. Pages are lightly age-toned, but are otherwise clean throughout. Very Good. book.
Published by The World Publishing Company, 1945
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Containing The Big Sleep And Farewell, My Lovely (Murder, My Sweet) CHANDLER, Raymond [203] pp. The World Publishing Company 1945 Second Printing 8 3/8" x 5 7/8" *w/ 1 1/2" chip to left center spine*.