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Chandler, Raymond.
Little Sister.
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London;
Date of Publication: 1949
Stock Code: 14438
First edition, second impression. Octavo, pp. 256. Bound in red publisher’s cloth with black titles to spine. In the price clipped publisher’s illustrated dust-jacket. A very good book, in a good jacket. Contents are clean and bright, and free from annotations. Foxing to top edge. Wear, loss and creasing to edges and tips of dust-jacket, and a small hole to the upper panel near the spine. A P.I. Phillip Marlowe novel, about the plot to kidnap a Hollywood starlet. A critique of the sleazy and vacuous LA film industry, inspired by Chandler’s own experience working as a screenwriter in Hollywood. £45.00