"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
The Little Sister.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by C.W. Bacon, priced at 8/6. Small blue ink note to fly-leaf, otherwise internally crisp and clean, with an associated newspaper clipping loose to preliminaries. Jacket shows wear and chipping to edges, with some rubbing and holes also to spine joints. A bright, attractive copy. Very good. The classic Philip Marlowe novel. This English first precedes the US first printing by three months. Item #72202
Price: £450.00
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