The High Window

Lot 12
28.09.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 12 | The High Window
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The High Window

Raymond Chandler

CHANDLER, Raymond (1888-1959). The High Window. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.



Inscribed first edition, first issue in fine condition, Donald Yates’s copy. Marlowe makes his third appearance here, entering the world of obsessive collecting and underworld dealings to investigate the theft of a rare gold coin, the 1787 Brasher Doubloon. It is inscribed by Chandler below the ownership of Donald Yates, professor of Spanish-American literature at Michigan State University. As well as being a Borges scholar, Yates had a keen interest in detective fiction throughout his career and in 1972 published the only anthology of Spanish American detective fiction. Bruccoli A.3.1a.



Octavo. Original light brown cloth lettered in purplish-red (only tiny wear at corners, light glue bleed-through on pastedowns as usual); original pictorial dust-jacket designed by Hans J. Barschel (minor wear at spine ends, price clipped); modern tan cloth box. Provenance: flyleaf signed by Chandler ‘With kindest regards’ – American Book Store, Mexico (stamp on back pastedown) – Donald A. Yates (1930-2017; flyleaf inscription ‘Ciudad de Mexico, 11 Sept. 1958).

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