Raymond Chandler, detective fiction, 3 volumes: ‘The Raymond...

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Raymond Chandler, detective fiction, 3 volumes: ‘The Raymond Chandler Omnibus [The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window; The Lady in the Lake]’, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1953, 1st edition thus, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (15s price intact), ‘The Second Chandler Omnibus [The Simple Art of Murder; The Little Sister; The Long Good-Bye; Playback], London, Hamish Hamilton, 1962, 1st edition thus, printer's error has left 16 pages blank affecting text in ‘The Long Good-Bye’ only (pp 204-205, 208-209, 212-213, 216-217, 220-221, 224-225, 228-229, 232-233), original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (25s price intact), ‘Playback’, L, Thriller Book Club Edition, 1958, original cloth, dust wrapper (3)