The Lady in the Lake by CHANDLER, Raymond - 1946

London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, preceding the American edition, and first issue, with the Knopf imprint (later issues have the Cassell imprint). Attractive engraved bookplate on the front pastedown, slightly cocked, and with a small, not too obtrusive stain on the front board, otherwise near fine, lacking the rare dustwrapper. A very attractive copy of the author's fourth book. This true first, English edition is exceptionally uncommon, and flat out rare in the jacket (which this copy lacks). Knopf published in the U.K. for only a few years, and generally produced very small editions.

New York: McBride, 1938. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Minute bumps to the crown and foot else fine in a lovely, about near fine example of the scarce dustwrapper with a few rubbed spots and slight loss at the spinal extremities (affecting a couple of letters), and some very neat professional reinforcing at the folds. A lost classic of hardboiled fiction; when it came out it was compared to *The Postman Always Rings Twice* and *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?* An Oklahoma man comes home and finds his wife and child gone, perhaps to California, and he sets out after them. The only mystery novel written by Eric Knight, an excellent and very versatile writer (he also wrote *Lassie, Come Home*) who died in a plane crash during WWII. An uncommon book, and genuinely rare in jacket.

New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1940. First Edition. Very Good/Good. First edition, first printing. Publisher's black cloth binding stamped in turquoise. Very Good with light fading at spine ends, two scrapes to top edge of textblock affecting margins, toning to pages. In a heavily restored dust jacket.

5 volumes with movie poster. 533 pages; 569 pages; 602 pages; x+334+[3 ad] pages with two page maps; 368 pages with 4 maps. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's red, blue, black and brown cloth bindings with silver and gilt lettering to spines in original pictorial jackets. Translated by Reg Keeland and George Goulding. Signed by David Lagercrantz on title. First British editions The Girl in the Spider's Web limited to 1000 which this is number 217. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye limited to 500 copies which this is number 284. Original poster for the first movie in Swedish. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in Swedish: Män som hatar kvinnor; in English: Men Who Hate Women) is a psychological thriller novel by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson (1954–2004), which was published posthumously in 2005 to become an international bestseller. It is the first book of the Millennium series. Millennium is a series of best-selling and award-winning… Read More

[8]+282+[1, blank]+[1, note on type] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's light green cloth, spine and front stamped in dark red and green, dark green broken key ornament at front board, dark green publisher's stamp at rear; top edge of text block stained purplish-red; original pictorial, first issue dust jacket with description of the book printed on front flap. First edition.The Glass Key is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett. It was first published as a serial in Black Mask magazine in 1930, then was collected in 1931 (in London; the American edition followed 3 months later). It tells the story of a gambler and racketeer, Ned Beaumont, whose devotion to Paul Madvig, a crooked political boss, leads him to investigate the murder of a local senator's son as a potential gang war brews. Hammett dedicated the novel to his onetime lover Nell Martin. There have been two US film adaptations (1935 and 1942) of the novel. A radio adaptation starring Orson Welles aired… Read More

London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, preceding the American edition, and first issue, with the Knopf imprint (later issues have the Cassell imprint). Attractive engraved bookplate on the front pastedown, slightly cocked, and with a small, not too obtrusive stain on the front board, otherwise near fine, lacking the rare dustwrapper. A very attractive copy of the author's fourth book. This true first, English edition is exceptionally uncommon, and flat out rare in the jacket (which this copy lacks). Knopf published in the U.K. for only a few years, and generally produced very small editions.

New York: McBride, 1938. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Minute bumps to the crown and foot else fine in a lovely, about near fine example of the scarce dustwrapper with a few rubbed spots and slight loss at the spinal extremities (affecting a couple of letters), and some very neat professional reinforcing at the folds. A lost classic of hardboiled fiction; when it came out it was compared to *The Postman Always Rings Twice* and *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?* An Oklahoma man comes home and finds his wife and child gone, perhaps to California, and he sets out after them. The only mystery novel written by Eric Knight, an excellent and very versatile writer (he also wrote *Lassie, Come Home*) who died in a plane crash during WWII. An uncommon book, and genuinely rare in jacket.

New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1940. First Edition. Very Good/Good. First edition, first printing. Publisher's black cloth binding stamped in turquoise. Very Good with light fading at spine ends, two scrapes to top edge of textblock affecting margins, toning to pages. In a heavily restored dust jacket.

5 volumes with movie poster. 533 pages; 569 pages; 602 pages; x+334+[3 ad] pages with two page maps; 368 pages with 4 maps. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's red, blue, black and brown cloth bindings with silver and gilt lettering to spines in original pictorial jackets. Translated by Reg Keeland and George Goulding. Signed by David Lagercrantz on title. First British editions The Girl in the Spider's Web limited to 1000 which this is number 217. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye limited to 500 copies which this is number 284. Original poster for the first movie in Swedish. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in Swedish: Män som hatar kvinnor; in English: Men Who Hate Women) is a psychological thriller novel by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson (1954–2004), which was published posthumously in 2005 to become an international bestseller. It is the first book of the Millennium series. Millennium is a series of best-selling and award-winning… Read More

[8]+282+[1, blank]+[1, note on type] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's light green cloth, spine and front stamped in dark red and green, dark green broken key ornament at front board, dark green publisher's stamp at rear; top edge of text block stained purplish-red; original pictorial, first issue dust jacket with description of the book printed on front flap. First edition.The Glass Key is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett. It was first published as a serial in Black Mask magazine in 1930, then was collected in 1931 (in London; the American edition followed 3 months later). It tells the story of a gambler and racketeer, Ned Beaumont, whose devotion to Paul Madvig, a crooked political boss, leads him to investigate the murder of a local senator's son as a potential gang war brews. Hammett dedicated the novel to his onetime lover Nell Martin. There have been two US film adaptations (1935 and 1942) of the novel. A radio adaptation starring Orson Welles aired… Read More