Mystery
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.
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 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. Brucolli, Raymond Chandler, A8.1.a. Hubin, p. 152.
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.
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.
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.
CHINATOWN BEAT.
[New York: Soho Press, Inc., 2006]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel introducing NYPD Detective Jack Yu.
THE VICE CZAR MURDERS.
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., Publishers, [1941]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-281 [282: blank], original salmon cloth, spine stamped in black, fore-edge rough cut. First edition. The only novel by this pair using this pseudonym. D. A.'s investigator is looking into a vice ring and gets involved in murder. Hubin, p. 154.
A DRINK OF DEADLY WINE.
New York: The Mysterious Press, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Author's first mystery novel. Signed by the author on the title page.
THE SAINT MYSTERY LIBRARY: LET HER KILL HERSELF by RUFUS KING.
New York: Saint Mystery Library Books, [1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Saint Mystery Library No. 11. GAP 128. Mystery anthology, the feature story first appeared in The Saint mystery magazine. The Harlan Ellison story, "Find One Cuckaboo" -a private eye mystery first appears in this volume.