Blunderer, Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First English edition. Nominal foxing on the foredge else very near fine in near fine dust jacket, with a small, faint stain visible only on the interior. Raymond Chandler's copy of Highsmith's second book, with his ownership Signature writ large: "Raymond Chandler. London. Feb. 1956." Of significance, Chandler wrote the screenplay for the 1951 classic film directed by Alfred Hitchcock that was made from Highsmith's first book, *Strangers on a Train*. Hitchcock largely discarded the two drafts of Chandler's screenplay in favor of one by Ben Hecht's protégé Czenzi Ormonde, and which later precipitated one of the great Hollywood "fuck you" letters from Chandler to "Dear Hitch." Highsmith would later write the introduction to the 1977 book, *The World of Raymond Chandler*.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Patricia Highsmith on the front free endpaper and inscribed "To Jose. A serious and grim book. I hope you will enjoy some parts of it. In memory of an important caesura in my life, and you are an anhydrate in my life. Pat Highsmith". Bound in publisher's black cloth affect paper over boards, lettered in magenta. Near Fine with lean to spine, light wear to corners and spine ends, foxing to top of textblock edge and pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with wear to the extremities and toning.