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277, [1] pp. Orange cloth, color pictorial jacket. First Edition.

Chandler's scarce first book, introducing the world to the famed private eye Philip Marlowe. Only 5,000 copies of the first printing produced. The basis for the 1946 film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Bruccoli A1.1.a. With ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, "From the Library of Carlton E. Morse," and neat pencil notation below "(Radio writer, director, producer of One Man's Family, I Love a Mystery, etc.)".