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A1-1a The Big Sleep, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1939. Orange-brown cloth, printed in blue on front and rear covers and spine. Issued in a printed dust wrapper. Note: The first printing of 5000 copies was published February 6, 1939. The words "First Edition" must appear on the copyright page. The second printing (listed below) is the only other American edition with a 1939 date on the copyright page. The words "First and Second Printing before Publication" indicate a second printing; do not be misled by the fact that the second printing occurred before publication. Copyright page: FIRST EDITION Published Simultaneously in Canada by The Ryerson Press.
Front & Rear DJ, Title page, Copyright information, Full jacket scan--click on the images for a larger version. Also review copies in printed wrappers. Proof copies of the first American Edition were issued prior to publication, bound in light green wrappers, lettered in black.
A1-1b First edition, second printing. New York: Knopf, 1939. Copyright page: First and Second Printing before Publication Published February 6, 1939. A1-1c First edition, third printing. New York: Grossett & Dunlap, [1940]. A1-1d First edition, fourth printing. New York: Knopf, [1945]. Copyright page: First issued as a Black Widow Thriller January 1945 $1.75 A1-1e First edition, fifth printing. New York: Knopf, 1946. Black Widow Thriller A1-2a First English Edition, first printing. London: Hamish Hamilton, [1939]. Black cloth, printed in orange-red on front and rear covers and spine. Issued in a printed dust wrapper. The first English edition was published one month after the American first edition.
A1-2b First English edition, second printing. London: Hamish Hamilton, [March 1939]. 'First cheap edition' May 1940: reprinted September 1940, January 1947, February 1948, May 1949, April 1950, November 1951. Also reprinted by Thriller Book Club (London, 1940). A1-3 Third Edition New York: Avon, [1942]. Murder Mystery Monthly #7. 25 cents. Wrappers. A1-4 Fourth Edition. New York: Avon, [1943]. New Avon Library #38. 25 cents. Wrappers. Noted with variant ads on inside back wrapper: (a) listing of titles 3-58; (b) listing of titles 14-73. 3 printings, 1943-1945.
A1-5a Fifth edition, first printing. Raymond Chandler's Mystery Omnibus. Cleveland & New York: World, [1944]. Reprinted in 1945. Also includes Farewell, My Lovely (movie title--Murder, My Sweet). A1-5c Fifth edition, third printing. Cleveland & New York: World, [1946]. The Big Sleep only. Copyright page: 'A FORUM BOOK MOTION PICTURE EDITION / First Printing June 1946.'
A1-6 Sixth edition. New York: Editions for the Armed Services, [1946]. #751. Wrappers
A1-7 Seventh edition. Stockholm & London: Continental, 1947. Zephyr #148. Wrappers. A1-8 Eighth edition. Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1948]. #652. Reprinted 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1962, 1964, 1966 (#C652), 1967, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976.
A1-9 Ninth edition. New York: Pocket, [1950]. #696. 25 cents. Wrappers. 6 printings, 1950-1967 (#50541).
A1-10 Tenth edition. The Raymond Chandler Omnibus. London: Hamish Hamilton, [1953]. Also includes Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window; The Lady in the Lake. A1-11 Eleventh edition. A Treasury of Great Mysteries, vol. 2, ed. Howard Haycraft and John Beecroft. New York: Simon & Schuster, [1957]. $5.95 A1-12 Twelfth edition. The Raymond Chandler Omnibus. Edited by Lawrence Clark Powell. New York: Knopf, 1964. Also includes Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window; The Lady in the Lake.
A1-13 Thirteenth edition. London: Hamish Hamilton, [1967]. A Fingerprint Book. A1-14 Fourteenth edition. New York: Knopf, [1969]. Published by the Mystery Guild as part of 10-volume Hall of Fame Mystery Set. 9 printings, 1969-1976.
A1-15a Fifteenth edition, Ballantine printings. New York: Ballantine, [1971]. #02201*7*095. 95 cents. Wrappers. 7 printings, 1971-1975. Possible Canadian printing. A1-15b Fifteenth edition, Vintage printing. New York: Vintage, [1976]. #V-136. $1.95. Wrappers. A1-16 Sixteenth edition. Bath: Lythway Press, [1976]. Large-type edition. A1-17 Seventeenth edition. The Raymond Chandler Omnibus. New York: Modern Library, 1980. Also includes Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window; The Lady in the Lake .
Note--Screenplay:Film Scripts One. Edited by George P. Garrett, O.B. Hardison, Jr. and Jane R. Gelfman (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1971], pp. 137-329. Screenplay for The Big Sleep by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman.
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