The High Window
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.
First edition. [viii], 240 pp. Publisher's light brown cloth with dark crimson lettering. Very Good condition with spine lean and slight crease, former owner's name and info on front paste down, a some lightly dog-eared pages, typical slight offsetting to endpapers. No dust jacket. The third of Chandler's acclaimed Philip Marlowe novels, wherein Marlowe is hired by an old Pasadena lush, Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock, to find an 18th Century coin called the Brasher Doubloon. The basis of two '40s films: Time to Kill and The Brasher Doubloon.
Price: $550.00
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