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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. [viii], 240 pp. Bound in publisher's light brown cloth with dark crimson lettering. Very Good+ with rubbing along edges, slight lean to spine and offsetting to endpapers, small date in ink on on disclaimer page, in a Good only dust jacket with splits and chipping to spine panel that are repaired with archival mending tissue on the verso, edge wear, unclipped ($2.00 net). 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.