8VO, 216 pgs. Hardcover: Light green cloth binding with title on frontboard and on spine.Upper outer board corners have 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" water mark. Text is completely unaffected. Boards are slightly soiled. Endpapers are foxed. Philip Marlowe is hired by a man to find his wife, even though he hates her. It could be a routine case, but it isn't. Nice tight binding. Jacket: Quarter inch blue protective tape runs along upper and lower jacket edges. Edgewear and chipping. Rubbed along outside edge. Thumbnail sized rubbed closed tear at middle of spine. Back cover soiled and foxed. Illustrated front cover. Author' s photo on back cover. Very desirable copy in protective mylar.

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