Americana. Crime Fiction: Chandler (Raymond), The High Windo...

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£80 - £120

Americana. Crime Fiction: Chandler (Raymond), The High Window, first edition, Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, August 1945, half-title, original pictorial dustjacket, clipped, over blue cloth; idem, The Brasher Doubloon, first edition thus, second impression overall, Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, July 1946, the half-title, title, and cloth binding still lettered The High Window as per, original movie printed dustjacket, price-clipped, 8vo; idem, Spanish Blood, first edition, Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, July 1946, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Hoffman, black cloth, 8vo; idem, The Second Chandler Omnibus, first edition, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962, original dustjacket designed by Patricia Davey, cloth, 8vo; others, including Farewell, My Lovely, third impression, June 1946, dj, cloth, 8vo; etc., (7) 

Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.