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BACKFIRE: STORY FOR THE SCREEN. Preface by Robert B. Parker.
Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press, 1984. Octavo, illustrated cloth. First edition. One of 126 hand bound copies signed by Robert B. Parker. Proposal for an original screenplay which went unsold.
THE FINGER MAN: AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1946]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #43. Digest size format. Collects three stories, The Finger Man, The Bronze Door, Smart-Aleck Kill, and the essay The Simple Art of Murder. [Reference: Hubin, p. 152].
FIVE SINISTER CHARACTERS.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1946]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Second paperback edition. Avon #88. Trade paperback. First published by Avon first as part of their Murder Mystery Monthly series. Story collection. [Reference: Raymond Chandler: A Descriptive Bibiography-A6.2].
FIVE SINISTER CHARACTERS.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1945]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #28. Digest size format. Collects five stories, I’ll Be Waiting, The King in Yellow, Pearls Are a Nuisance, Red Wind, and Trouble Is My Business. [Reference: Hubin, p. 152].
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FIVE [5] MURDERERS.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1945]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Second paperback edition, first issue. Avon #63. Trade paperback. First published by Avon first as part of their Murder Mystery Monthly series. Story collection. [Reference: Raymond Chandler: A Descriptive Bibiography-A5.2].
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FIVE [5] MURDERERS.
New York: Avon Book Company, 1944. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #19. Digest size format. Collection of mystery stories which first appeared in Black Mask. Contents: Blackmailers Don’t Shoot, Goldfish,Guns at Cyrano’s, Nevada Gas, and Spanish Blood. [Reference: Hubin, p. 152. Queen's Quorum 99].
KILLER IN THE RAIN.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Collection of eight stories, five previously uncollected. All where used in parts of his early Philip Marlowe novels, THE BIG SLEEP, FAREWELL, MY LOVELY and THE LADY IN THE LAKE. Introduction by Philip Durham. [Reference: Hubin, pp. 152-153].
THE LADY IN THE LAKE.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-216 [217: blank] [318: colophon], original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, running Borzoi stamped in black on rear panel, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First edition. Chandler's fourth novel featuring private detective Philip Marlowe and his "masterpiece" (Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 483). The 1947 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture starred Robert Montgomery and was filmed "in the first person," from Marlowe's physical point of view. 6000 copies printed. [Reference: Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 64. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights: The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 123-4. Bruccoli IV-1a].
THE LITTLE SISTER.
London: Hamish Hamilton, [1949]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The fifth Philip Marlowe novel. A mystery novel with a Hollywood connection. Filmed in 1969 as "Marlowe" with Jame Garner. [Reference: Brucolli, Raymond Chandler, A8.1.a. Hubin, p. 152].
THE LITTLE SISTER.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1949]. Octavo, publisher's decorated orange cloth stamped in dark blue, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First U.S. edition, first printing. A Philip Marlowe novel. [Reference: Bruccoli, A8.2.b].
THE MIDNIGHT RAYMOND CHANDLER.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1971]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collect four short pieces, "Red Wind," "Trouble is My Business," "Blackmailers Don't Shoot," "The Pencil," and two novels THE LITTLE SISTER and THE LONG GOODBYE. Two stories collected here for the first time ("Blackmailers Don't Shoot," and "The Pencil"). All but one feature his private detective Philip Marlowe and for all intents and purposed the character in his first published story "Blackmailers Don't Shoot," Mallory becomes Marlowe. Introduction by Joan Kahn. This also includes Chandler's introduction to THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER.
MORD MIN ALSKLING (FAREWELL, MY LOVELY).
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, n.d. [1955?]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Swedish paperback edition. Zebra Books #9. Swedish paperback.
PLAYBACK.
London: Hamish Hamilton, [1958]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The last Philip Marlowe novel, precedes the U.S. edition.
THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1952]. Small octavo, cover by George Mayers, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pocket #916. Reprints partial contents of the hardcover edition, contains four stories plus the essay "The Simple Art of Murder." [Reference: Bruccoli: Raymond Chandler: A Descriptive Bibliography, A9.3].
THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. Octavo, jacket art by Boris Artzybasheff, cloth. First edition. Collects twelve stories and the essay "The Simple Art of Murder." "Eleven of the twelve stories in this collection are those that Chandler considered the best of his output for the pulps..." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 125-126. In several of the stories the original character of Johnny Dalmas is changed to Marlowe. [Reference: Bruccoli, Raymond Chandler: A Bibliography A.9.1.a. Hubin, p. 153. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone].
SMART-ALECK KILL.
London: Hamish Hamilton, [1958]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Collects four stories which first appeared in THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER; "The Smart- Aleck Kill," "Pick Up on Noon Street," "Nevada Gas," and "Spanish Blood." [Reference: Bruccoli, AA 7.1].
THE SMELL OF FEAR.
London: Hamish Hamilton, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of short stories.
SPANISH BLOOD: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Co., 1946. Octavo, boards. First edition. First hardcover appearance of these stories. First book publications were Five Murderers (Avon, 1944) and Five Sinister Characters (Avon, 1945).
SPANISH BLOOD: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1946]. Octavo, boards. First edition. First publication of these five stories in a hardcover book. The stories appeared earlier (with five others) in FIVE MURDERERS (1944) and FIVE SINISTER CHARACTERS (1945), two paperbound books published by Avon. [Reference: Bruccoli AA3].
SPANISH BLOOD: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1946]. Octavo, boards. First edition. First publication of these five stories in a hardcover book. The stories appeared earlier (with five others) in FIVE MURDERERS (1944) and FIVE SINISTER CHARACTERS (1945), two paperbound books published by Avon. Bruccoli AA3.
SPANISH BLOOD: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1946]. Octavo, boards. First edition. First publication of these five stories in a hardcover book. The stories appeared earlier (with five others) in FIVE MURDERERS (1944) and FIVE SINISTER CHARACTERS (1945), two paperbound books published by Avon. [Reference: Bruccoli AA3].
DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY.
New York: The Red Star News Company, May, 1936. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features "Noon Street Nemesis" by Raymond Chandler. "Detective Fiction Weekly maintained a strong personality in a crowded field, through a rigid weekly publication schedule, for two decades. It is greatly underrated today" - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 135-137.
DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE.
Chicago: Popular Publications, 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features the Raymond Chandler story, "Pearls are a Nuisance". [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 168-170].
RAYMOND CHANDLER SPEAKING.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Letters and essays by Chandler on the Mystery novel, the craft of writing, film and television, publishing and more. It also includes the first publication of the first four chapters of Poodle Springs, an unfinished novel when Chandler died.
RAYMOND CHANDLER AND FILM.
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., [1982]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Study that covers Chandler's work in Hollywood and the films that were made from his work.