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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth, front board and spine stamped in dark brown. Very Good with faint light wear to cloth at extremities; endsheets offset from binders glue and former owner name written to front free endpaper, pages toned. In a Very Good dust jacket with toning heaviest at the spine panel, wear at the extremities and chipping at the spine ends. The third of Chandler's acclaimed Philip Marlowe novels, wherein Marlowe is hired by an old Pasadena lush, Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock, to find an 18th Century coin called the Brasher Doubloon. The basis of two '40s films: Time to Kill and The Brasher Doubloon.

The High Window is a novel written by Raymond Chandler, featuring his iconic detective character, Philip Marlowe. The story revolves around a missing coin and the various characters involved in its disappearance.

The first edition of The High Window was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1942. The book is bound in black cloth with red and blue decorations.