The Little Sister, Raymond Chandler
First American edition, first printing of Chandler's fifth novel, featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe's investigation of a missing persons case and blackmail scheme centered around a Hollywood starlet. In the first issue binding of deep orange cloth.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. Publisher's deep orange cloth stamped in blue to front board and spine; pp. (vi), 249. An about near fine copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding sturdy, minimal wear to boards, internally clean. Jacket remains bright, showing light general shelfwear and a bit of chipping to spine tips, protected in archival mylar.