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Chandler Before Marlowe: Raymond Chandler's Early Prose and Poetry, 1908-1912.

CHANDLER, Raymond (1888-1959), [BRUCCOLI, Matthew J., editor], [BARZUN, Jacques, preface].

Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1973. [Posthumous anthology] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 110. With a frontispiece of the author. Number 167 of 499 copies. Publisher's red quarter faux leather with gilt titles to spine and mottled cream paper over boards. Matching cream endpapers; all edges red. In the red faux leather slipcase. Gilt dulled to spine. Light bumping to slipcase. A near fine copy. Item #55847

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