Desirable unsigned book: The High Window. First edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Hardcover with dust jacket (publisher's printed price of $2.00 present on inner front flap), 5.5 x 7.75, 240 pages. Book condition: VG/VG, with professional restorations to dust jacket including larger areas of repaired losses and color infill at spine ends and edges. Chandler's third novel to feature Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe. The High Window was adapted twice for the silver screen—Time to Kill in 1943, and then in 1947 as The Brasher Doubloon, which starred George Montgomery as Marlowe.
