Big Sleep, Signed (18 results)

Condition: As New. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on half title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed/1st pr, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square, solid, and very plausibly unread; the boards are solid and unblemished, and the dust jacket is sharp and in a protective Brodart cover. No price clippings, no remainder marks. You'll tilt your chair back and gaze out onto Boylston Street, mulling over the starting nine on your fantasy baseball team, consider a workout at Cimoli's gym with Hawk.and hope that no new clients show for the day once this book arrives in the mail! NOTE: Four or five pinpricks of foxing to the pages sides. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author on title page.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. SIGNED by the author. There is slight book spine warping, very light corner wear with a gold sticker on the front cover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The dustjacket shows minimal wear and is protected in a mylar cover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Hillenbrand, Will (illustrator). 1st Edition. As winter comes and Big Bear prepares to hibernate, he keeps thinking he hears Old man Winter giving him exhausting orders that prevent him from sleeping. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. FINE in fine dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar. Flat SIGNED by author on title page. FIRST edition, first printing. Binding tight and square. Appears unread. Interior clean and bright. Unmarked on inspection. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. 1st printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Will Hillenbrand (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st printing. Signed by illustrator! Unpagiinated. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. Signed by author without inscription. First edition with full number line. DJ in protective mylar cover. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. FIRST. ALL THREE NEW IN FULL LEATHER Uniform steel blue leather binding with gilt design on the front. Bound in premium full leathers, hubbed spine, distinctive cover design, beautiful illustrations, permanent satin ribbon page marker, gilded page edges, moire endsheets, thread-sewn pages. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Lou Stoumen (illustrator). 1st Edition, Limited Edition. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, Arion Press, 1986. DESCRIPTION: Quarto (4to) 10 1/4 H x 8 W inches (25.5 x 20 cm), 249 pages + colophon. Limited edition one of 425 copies. Introduction by Lawrence Clark Powell. Printed with Scotch Roman and Futura Black types on Mohawk Superfine paper. Illustrated with 40 photographs by Lou Stoumen, plus frontispiece of Chandler's grave. Unusual binding made of thick plexiglass boards with beveled edges. Art Deco geometric border design and titling on front cover stamped in bold blue-green with beige linen external joints. Concludes with a final photographer's note by Stoumen with his signature. Issued without a slipcase. Book is protected with an archival clear Grafix Dura Lar dust wrapper.______CONDITION: Fine ("as new") condition._____DISCUSSION: Stoumen's photographs were staged and reproduced to resemble motion picture publicity stills, giving this hard-boiled detective novel a tongue-in-cheek edge. Lou Stoumen was a famous Hollywood photographer, film director and producer who won two Academy Awards. This novel was the first to feature Chandler's famous detective Philip Marlowe._____NOTE: Domestic shipping is via UPS Ground with tracking. International shipping cost using USPS International Priority Express Mail with tracking to most locations in the United Kingdom and Europe is $75 U.s. dollars. Shipping cost to more distant locations may incur additional cost. Signed by Illustrator(s).

First Edition, First Printing. An hisroric signed presentation copy from Raymond Chandler to long-time friend Edward Lloyd inscribed over a month before publication: ÒTo Eddie from Ray, La Jolla, Jan 6th 1939.Ó Fine in a mint fresh dust jacket with beautiful fresh colors. Enclosed in a handsome morocco and cloth clamshell box. In 1912, Chandler met Warren and Alma Lloyd and their son Edward on the ship which brought Chandler back home to America after years in England. The Lloyd family from Los Angeles were of immense importance in the life of Chandler. They were an upper middle class family with income from the Southern California oil boom in the early part of the century. Warren had a Ph.D in philosophy from Yale and Alma was a sculptor. Their son Edward went on to become a lawyer. The family had similar intellectual interests to Chandler and because of their interest and support Chandler settled in Los Angeles and he spent much of his early years in their company and through them he met Cissy Pascal, who later became ChandlerĠs wife. It was Warren Lloyd who got Chandler into the oil business by suggesting he be employed by the Dabney Oil Syndicate in the 1920s. It was this experience that helped add much to his knowledge of Los Angeles and its ways of life that found its way into his novels. Chandler was fired by Dabney Oil due to his drinking and womanizing which became an embarrassment and a liability to the company. With his marriage in trouble and financially broke, it was Edward Lloyd who came forward to help. Chandler had always wanted to be a writer and now with nothing left to lose wanted to try it. Edward Lloyd gave Chandler an allowance of $100.00 per month in order to allow him the freedom to write full time and try to develop a career as a writer. The money allowed Chandler to establish himself in Black Mask magazine with that period culminating in the The Big Sleep, his first novel, which used substantial portions of two of his Black Mask stories ÒKiller in the RainÓ (1935) and ÒThe CurtainÓ (1936). An historic copy of a landmark book in American Literature.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Full Description: CHANDLER, Raymond. The Big Sleep. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First edition of author's first book. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 1/16 inches; 188 x 128 mm). [viii], [1]-277, [1, colophon], [2, blank] pp. With a tipped in presentation by Chandler which reads "Raymond Chandler/Big Bear City/ Sept 1940/ From/H. Lucas." Presentation is tipped in on a full leaf after the front free endpaper. We could only find three other inscribed first edition copies on Rare Book Hub. Two which both sold in 2011, inscribed to his wife and to himself. And a third copy in advanced wrappers which sold in 2019. Publisher's original orange cloth, front board and spine stamped in blue. Top edges dyed blue. Original full-color dust jacket. Front and back panel of jacket with some dampstaining, only visible on the inside of jacket. Jacket spine a bit darkened. Jacket with restoration along top and bottom edges of panels, along creases of front and back flaps and along spine. light rubbing to spine extremities and lower edge. Cloth with some very slight rubbing to board edges and a minor amount of wrinkling to cloth on front board. Still, overall shows about fine. Housed in a full blue morocco clamshell. This novel introduced Philip Marlowe, and established the primacy of the hard-boiled detective novel as a genre during the 30's and 40's. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. This book contains a presentation page tipped in. The presentation reads "Raymond Chandler/Big Bear City/ Sept 1940/ From/H. Lucas." Clearly, H. Lucas asked Chandler to send a presentation inscription to a friend, hence the "From H. Lucas." The friend then tipped this page into the book. Chandler spent a lot of time around Big Bear Lake and even used the fictionalized version of it called Big Bear City in his second novel "Lady in the Lake." Bruccoli, Chandler, A1.1a. HBS 69127. $25,000. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Thus (In a limited edition of 425 copies). A very good copy, virtually mint, bound in beveled plexiglass boards and spine, with silkscreened titles and decorations, illustrated with new photographs shot by legendary photographer Lou Stoumen in vintage 1940s black and white style. Produced in an edition of 425 unnumbered copies, signed by the photographer Lou Stoumen. The original prospectus is laid-in. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. First edition thus, inscribed by Raymond Chandler on the half title page. "For Dick Snyder / with best wishes / Raymond Chandler / La Jolla / Feb 20 / 1948." Binding slightly shaken, but without cracks to hinges, cloth is rubbed and worn, slightly faded at spine, with scattered spotting to panels, and three small nicks, text edges tanned, as is common with books from this publisher. Very good dust jacket supplied. The first omnibus edition of any of Chandler's books, collecting his first two novels, and pre-dating the Black Widow Thriller edition of either title by one year. Bruccoli A1.5.a. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Black Widow edition inscribed by Chandler to the director John Houseman. "For John Houseman with the somewhat insufficient excuse that I forgot to murder him. Ray. 5.13.45." Chandler and Houseman began as English schoolyard compatriots and eventually went on to collaborate infamously ont he film "The Blue Dahlia" by rushing to complete the script before its star, Alan Ladd, entered military service. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket has some tape on inside. Comes in a custom-made case clamshell case with leather spine and gold tooling and lettering.