THE BIG SLEEP by RAYMOND CHANDLER - 1994 HC/DJ PENZLER FIRST EDITION LIBRARY FEL

  THE BIG SLEEP by RAYMOND CHANDLER — 1994 HC/DJ with SLIPCASE — PENZLER First Edition Library (FEL) Publisher: Otto Penzler, New York (1994)In excellent condition, with only slight smudges to back of slipcase. Scarce. First Edition Library (FEL) productions are highly collectible. In the late 1980s the First Edition Library (FEL) began publishing high quality facsimiles of famous first editions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sold via subscription, the FEL eventually produced over one hundred titles. The degree of accuracy maintained in the duplication of original first editions was nothing less than extraordinary. FEL facsimiles had the same weight, size, typeface, art, dust jacket, finish and texture as the originals. Even mistakes were duplicated - for example, the infamous "jay" error on the front flap of The Great Gatsby dust jacket possesses the same capital 'J' that strikes over the lower case letter as the original.There are, however, some distinguishing differences