PHILIP MARLOWE'S FINAL TASK
CHANDLER, Raymond. Playback. London:Hamish Hamilton. 1958.
8vo. Original publisher's red cloth with silver lettering to spine and publisher's emblem; black dust jacket with title in orange and photograph of author to lower wrapper; pp. 207, [1]; offsetting to and from endpapers (as usual); marginal loss to upper spine end of wrappers and vertical crease to edge of front panel; very good.
First UK edition.
"The subject was as easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket"
Chandler's final novel (a reworking of a screenplay with the same title) is set in the fictional town of Esmeralda (a version of La Jolla, where Chandler spent his final years). It is The only Philip Marlowe novel not to be set in Los Angeles.
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