CHANDLER, RAYMOND. 1888-1959. The Big Sleep. New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1939.

The Library of David Lloyd, Part ICHANDLER, RAYMOND. 1888-1959.
The Big Sleep. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. 8vo. Original orange cloth lettered in gray-blue; dust jacket by Hans J. Barschel. Mild toning to endpapers, touch of rubbing to corners and spine ends, jacket toned with restoration to flap folds and spine panel ends.FIRST EDITION of the author's first book. Philip Marlow comments at the end: "What did it matter where you lay once you are dead? In a dirty dump or in a marble tower on top a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep...." The movie adaptation staring Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart was directed by Howard Hawks and scripted by William Faulkner. A "Rare Books and De Luxe Editions" store is featured on p 26. Bruccoli A.1.1.a; Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.