Publisher's Archive for Backfire by Raymond Chandler

Santa Barbara, California: Santa Teresa Press, 1983. The archive includes Parker’s corrected typescript for the preface; various proofs, some signed by Parker; holograph notes by Parker; publisher’s notes and mock-ups; printer’s and binder’s dummies; in a custom cloth clamshell box by the book’s designer, repeating the final design. Another box, with the same design, holds six original sketches, all matted, for the bound issue’s binding. All pieces are in excellent condition.

[Book #30227P]

Price: $4,500.00