NMLP P-025307 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler · Alfred A. Knopf (New York) · 1939

US Knopf, February 1939, is the true first (Bruccoli A1.1.a); the UK edition (Hamish Hamilton, 1939) follows. Chandler's first book and a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone; author-signed firsts are scarce.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-025307 for "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-025307, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).