Title: Killer in the Rain - first and first American editions Author: Chandler, Raymond Place: London & New York Publisher: Hamish Hamilton & Houghton Mifflin Date: 1964 Description: Comprises: Killer in the Rain. Red boards, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial jacket. London: Hamish Hamilton, [1964]. First Edition. Killer in the Rain. Blue cloth, lettered in white, pictorial jacket. First American Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. First American Edition. Together, 2 volumes. Introduction by Philip Durham. Chandler's "cannibalized" work of short stories, previously unpublished in England. Most of them first appeared in "Black Mask" magazine where both Chandler and Dashiell Hammett honed their craft. Bruccoli A14.1 & A14.2. Lot Amendments Condition: Both with some extremity rubbing and soiling to jackets, English edition with price clipped; light foxing to page edges of the English edition, American edition with stains to front endpapers; both about very good in like jackets. Item number: 239530
Title: Killer in the Rain - first and first American editions Author: Chandler, Raymond Place: London & New York Publisher: Hamish Hamilton & Houghton Mifflin Date: 1964 Description: Comprises: Killer in the Rain. Red boards, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial jacket. London: Hamish Hamilton, [1964]. First Edition. Killer in the Rain. Blue cloth, lettered in white, pictorial jacket. First American Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. First American Edition. Together, 2 volumes. Introduction by Philip Durham. Chandler's "cannibalized" work of short stories, previously unpublished in England. Most of them first appeared in "Black Mask" magazine where both Chandler and Dashiell Hammett honed their craft. Bruccoli A14.1 & A14.2. Lot Amendments Condition: Both with some extremity rubbing and soiling to jackets, English edition with price clipped; light foxing to page edges of the English edition, American edition with stains to front endpapers; both about very good in like jackets. Item number: 239530
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