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. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with wear to corner tips and upper spine panel, clear tape reinforcement to verso of upper spine panel, mild edge rubbing. (22491). Item #22491
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