Results for: Raymond Chandler


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First impression, precedes US (Bruccoli). Light toning of textblock, else book is flawless boards extremely clean and bright. Price clipped jacket has slightest toning on rear panel and spine, else clean, bright and intact. Collects 8 Chandler stories, including Killer in the Rain, The Man Who Liked Dogs, The Curtain, Try the Girl, Mandarins's Jade, Bay City Blues, The Lady in the Lake, and No Crime in the Mountains. Very nice copy
Killer in the Rain
Chandler, Raymond
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964.
Price: $295.00
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Usual page browning, small spot on front board, else clean and unmarked. Jacket has loss at spine ends, edgewar, rubbing on rear panel. Collects 5 stories including SPANISH BLOOD, PEARLS ARE A NUISANCE and TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS.
Spanish Blood
Chandler, Raymond
New York: Tower World Publishing, 1946.
Price: $35.00
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November, 1951, Bruccoli A 1.2. b. Front board bowed slightly, price clipped jacket, light toning of jacket, else an extremely nice copy. Part of a series of early Hamish reprints with the same jacket art of hand holding a pistol. One of the scarcer titles in the series.
The Big Sleep
Chandler, Raymond
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1951.
Price: $125.00
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White portions of jacket have toned somewhat and a touch of rubbing on the rear panel; else a flawless copy. boards exceptionally clean and bright. First hardcover printing of Raymond Chandlers' acclaimed screenplay for Blue Dahila. Includes introduction by John Houseman, afterword by Matthew Bruccoli and a bibliography of Chandler's work for Hollywood. A clinic on the art of writing dialogue. Precedes UK edition.
The Blue Dahlia: A Screenplay
Chandler, Raymond
Carbondale, Illinois, U.S.A.: Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 1976.
Price: $120.00
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Bruccoli A 4.1.a Soiling of board edges, mild wear to boards, some reading wear to textblock, else clean, square and unmarked with solid binding. The now intact jacket has benefitted from professional restoration along top and bottom edge, tape residue on front flap else very nice indeed. The fourth Pihilip Marlowe, some consider it the best. Subject for the very forgettable 1947 movie starring Robert Montomery. Supplied with custom made slipcase
The Lady in the Lake
Chandler, Raymond
New York: Knopf, 1943.
Price: $1,250.00
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Bruccoli 10.2. First issue red orange boards clean and bright, textblock clean, square and unmarked. Jacket has tape reinforcement on verso, slight spine fade, 1/4" loss at base of spine, sticker pull on front panel, general wear; else clean and intact, not price clipped. Overall, a respectable copy. Though preceded by the UK edition, many favor the US edition with the Artzybasheff jacket art. Philip Marlowe.
The Little Sister
Chandler, Raymond
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949.
Price: $195.00
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Bruccoli 10.2. Small ding on bottom edge, erasure abrasion on FFE, else remarkabley fresh, clean, tight, square and unmarked. First issue organge boards very fresh. Jacket has 1/4"loss at head of spine, wear at extremities, a touch of fading of reds on spine else intact. Front panel clean and bright. Though preceded by the UK edition, many favor the US edition with the Artzybasheff jacket art. Philip Marlowe.
The Little Sister
Chandler, Raymond
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949.
Price: $375.00
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(Bruccoli A 10 1. a.) A touch of foxing,else,; else extremely clean, square and unmarked. Cleank intact jacket has benefitted from some professional restoration, visible from the underside. . The last great Philip Marlowe and one of Chandler's most complex plots. Jacket art by Fritz Wegner. Subect of 1973 movie of the same name, directed by Robert Altman, starring Elliott Gould.
The Long Good-bye
Chandler, Raymond
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: $625.00
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Bruccoli A A 6.1. Book has offsetting of endpapers, mild toning, two corners bumped slightly else clean, tight, square and unmarked. Jacket has slight loss on corners, several tape mends evident on verso, a rather darkened rear panel, else intact. Collects the first four Phillip Marlowe novels--THE BIG SLEEP, FAREWELL MY LOVELY, LADY IN THE LAKE and THE HIGH WINDOW. Precedes US. Jacket art by C. W. Bacon.
The Raymond Chandler Omnibus
Chandler, Raymond
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: $125.00
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Bruccoli AA 9. Endpapers and edges foxed, intruding into textblock in seveal places, ownership signature else clean, tight, square and unmarked. Jacket is trimmed 1/4", price clipped, rear panel foxed, else intact. Collects THE LITTLE SISTER, THE LONG GOOD-BYE and PLAYBACK
The Second Chandler Omnibus
Chandler, Raymond
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962.
Price: $25.00
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Lightly toned textblock, small bookstore stamp on pastedown; else clean, tight, square and unmarked. Price clipped jacket has 1/16th" loss at spine ends and corners, whites of jacket uniformly toned, lightly soiled rear panel, else intact. Published only in the UK, collects fourteen of Chandler's early short stories, first hardcover printing of THE PENCIL. Spectacular jacket art by Youngman Carter. Solid copy
The Smell of Fear
Chandler, Raymond
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1965.
Price: $295.00
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Precedes US (Bruccoli). Owner's signature on FFE, a touch of foxing on edges; else clean, tight, square and unmarked. Jacket has usual spine fade, chipping at head of spine (up to 1/4") and closed tear with associated wrinkling at base of spine. Collection of letters, essays and short articles. Includes Chandler's indictment of Hollywood from Atlantic Monthly and "Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel" and the "Poodle Springs Story." Many consider Chandler's letters and nonfiction writings to be as least as good as his novels.
Raymond Chandler Speaking
Gardiner, Dorothy and Katherine Sorely Walker (eds.) {Raymond Chandler}
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962.
Price: $50.00
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