1995, ISBN: 6ed805b1a34ad396e33599903182e3b5

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: The Library of America], RAYMOND CHANDLER, Fiction|Movie or Television Tie-In, Fiction|Classics, Fiction|Thrillers|Crime Thriller, Children's Fiction|Myster… Plus…

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: The Library of America], RAYMOND CHANDLER, Fiction|Movie or Television Tie-In, Fiction|Classics, Fiction|Thrillers|Crime Thriller, Children's Fiction|Mysteries & Detective Stories, Fiction|Mystery & Detective|Private Detective, Fiction|Mystery & Detective|Hard-Boiled, Children's Fiction|Classics, Fiction|Short Stories (single author), Fiction|Mystery & Detective|Crime & Caper, Fiction|Thrillers|Psychological Thriller, Jacket, Fine condition dark blue cloth boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Chronology; Note on the Texts; Notes by Frank MacShane; and List of Books in the Library of America Series. Includes a bound-into-the-volume matching dark blue satin ribbon page marker. Stories included are as follows: (1) Thirteen Pulp Stories: Blackmailers Don't Shoot; Smart-Aleck Kill; Finger Man; Nevada Gas; Spanish Blood; Guns at Cyrano's; Pick-Up on Noon Street; Goldfish; Red Wind; The King in Yellow; Pearls Are a Nuisance; Trouble is My Business; I'll Be Waiting; (2): The Big Sleep; (3) Farewell, My Lovely; and (4) The High Window. Also includes two-color front and rear endpapers. "In Raymond Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. With humor, and an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling details of dress and behavior, he created a distinctive fictional universe out of the dark side of sunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both crime writing and the American language. Now Chandler joins the authoritative Library of America series in a comprehensive two-volume set displaying all the facets of his brilliant talent. Stories & Early Novels includes every story that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel -- thirteen in all, among them such classics as "Red Wind," "Finger Man," "The King in Yellow," and "Trouble Is My Business." Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazines - with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue - to his own emerging vision of 20th century America. With a poet's sensitivity he transcribes the moods and textures of a world of gangsters and crooked politicians, lost souls and small-time operators. Against that backdrop we see the gradual development of his most indelible creation, the classic private eye whose hard-boiled exterior guards a sentimental and essentially moral nature. In his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), that character finds his full-fledged form as Philip Marlowe: at once tough, independent, brash, disillusioned, and sensitive - a man of weary honor threading his way (in Chandler's phrase) "down these mean streets" among blackmailers, pornographers, and murderers for hire. In Farewell, My Lovely (1940), Chandler's personal favorite among his novels, Marlowe's search for a missing woman leads him from shanties and honky-tonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering an array of richly drawn characters. The High Window (1942), about a rare coin that becomes the catalyst by which a hushed-up crime comes back to haunt a wealthy family, is partly a humorous burlesque of pulp fiction. All three novels show Chandler at a peak of verbal inventiveness and storytelling drive. Raymond Chandler: Stories & Early Novels contains a newly researched chronology of Chandler's life, explanatory notes, and an essay on the texts. Frank MacShane, editor, is author of The Life of Raymond Chandler and Raymond Chandler: A Bibliography and editor of The Letters of Raymond Chandler and The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English Summer." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps., Books<

2014, ISBN: 6ed805b1a34ad396e33599903182e3b5

LIBRARY OF AMERICA, 2014. US First Edition, First Printing Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Protected in clear Mylar cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped in a box. We do not stock or sell ex-libr… Plus…

LIBRARY OF AMERICA, 2014. US First Edition, First Printing Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Protected in clear Mylar cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped in a box. We do not stock or sell ex-library or Book Club editions. We are always looking to buy hardcover Mysteries and Thrillers., LIBRARY OF AMERICA, 2014, 5<

1995, ISBN: 6ed805b1a34ad396e33599903182e3b5

New York, NY, United States: Library of America, 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Blue cloth. First printing. Near fine copy in a near fine slipcase., Library of America, 1995, 4

1995, ISBN: 6ed805b1a34ad396e33599903182e3b5

Near Fine, [PU: Library of America, New York, NY, United States], 8vo. Blue cloth. First printing. Near fine copy in a near fine slipcase.