This paperback edition of Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep" is a must-have for fans of hard-boiled detective fiction. Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in 1976, this trade paperback weighs 4.2 oz and features a non-classifiable, fiction story that centers on mystery and private investigation. In good condition. Binding is intact, no creasing. Pages are clean, no writing or highlighting. Book is showing signs of shelf wear.