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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. 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. 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. Hubin, p. 152.
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FIVE [5] MURDERERS.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1945]. 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. 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. 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. Hubin, pp. 152-153.
THE LADY IN THE LAKE.
New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., n.d. [1945]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Armed Services #838. Philip Marlowe. Issued for military servicemen. Bruccoli: Raymond Chandler: A Descriptive Bibliography, A4.3.
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. 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 LONG GOODBYE.
London: Thriller Book Club, n.d., [195-?]. Octavo, boards. Later edition. A Philip Marlowe novel. Edgar Award winner for best novel. One of the author's best novels. "...one of the most realistic looks into the day-to-day life of a private investigator..." "In it [the novel] we also see a different side of Marlowe...: the man who is honorable in his personal relationships as he is in his professional ones." "An excellent novel with a moving ending." Pronzini & Muller (eds.): 1001 Midnights: The Aficionados's Guide To Mystery and Detective Fiction, p 124-25. "...not only Chandler's best but the masterwork of hard-boiled detective-fiction, providing an image of how much can be done with the genre." Pederson (ed.): St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers (4th ed.), p. 168-170. Filmed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Leigh Brackett with Elliot Gould as Marlowe. A near fine copy, previous owners signature to front free endpaper, light rubbing to spine ends in a very fine dust jacket. Bruccoli notes in his bibliography this edition not seen. Hubin, p. 152. Bruccoli A 10.1.c.
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.
PICK-UP ON NOON STREET: FOUR STORIES FROM THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1957]. Small octavo, cover by Robert Maguire, pictorial wrappers. Later printing. Pocket #2846.
PLAYBACK.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1960. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Cardinal Edition #C-375. A Philip Marlowe novel.
PLAYBACK.
London: Hamish Hamilton, [1958]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The last Philip Marlowe novel, precedes the U.S. edition.
THE RAYMOND CHANDLER OMNIBUS.
New York: The Modern Library, 1980. Octavo, boards. First Modern Library edition. Collects THE BIG SLEEP, FAREWELL, MY LOVELY, THE HIGH WINDOW, THE LADY IN THE LAKE.
RED WIND: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1946]. Octavo, cloth. 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 AA2. Hubin, p. 153.
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." Bruccoli: Raymond Chandler: A Descriptive Bibliography, A9.3.
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." 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. 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. 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.