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A fine first edition hardcover in dustjacket. One of 250 copies signed by William F. Nolan who wrote the introduction and is the author of Logan's Run.
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ly ingenius tales of murder passionate and cold-blooded, written by a poet of the hard-boiled.
There's Black, a stranger in town, who gets drafted into a gang war just because he had the bad luck to trip over a corpse on his way from the station. There's the glamorous Bella, whose boyfriends have the distressing habit of stabbing one another while she naps in the next room. And of course there's Johnny Doolin, who hires himself out as a bodyguard--only to find that his client has no interest in staying alive.
The men and women in Seven Slayers are exactly what the title promises: people who kill for love or money or for the sheer, perverse joy of homicide. And this riveting collection is one of the few surviving books by Paul Cain (aka Peter Ruric, aka George Sims), a hard-drinking, enigmatic writer of the 1930s who had as many pseudonyms as he had wives and of whom Raymond Chandler wrote that he had reached in his fict
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"Prime examples of thirties' pulp crime-fiction writing at its finest . . . as intense a noir portrait of Depression-era America as those painted by James M. Cain." --Bill Pronzini
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Seven Slayers
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BLOOd & Guts Press, Los Angeles, California, 1987
ISBN 10: 094094104X
ISBN 13: 9780940941045
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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First hardcover edition. Introduction by William Nolan. Cover art by Joe Servello. Light foxing on page edges, modest spotting on boards, near fine in an about fine dust jacket with faint interior toning. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by William Nolan. Seller Inventory # 532183
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SEVEN SLAYERS. */*LIMITED EDITION / SIGNED COPY** *
Published by
Blood & Guts Press, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A., 1987
ISBN 10: 094094104X
ISBN 13: 9780940941045
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First Edition
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Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Servello, Joe (illustrator). First Edition. First harciver edition. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. 1 of 250 copies SIGNED & NUMBERED[this being #58] by William F. Nolan who wrote the introduction. Cover illustration by Je Servello. (Published as a paperback orignal in the 40's). Seven brutally ingenius tales of murder, passionate and cold-blooded, written by a poet of the hard-boiled. There's Black, a stranger in town, who gets drafted into a gang war just because he had the bad luck to trip over a corpse on his way from the station. There's the glamorous Bella, whose boyfriends have the distressing habit of stabbing one another while she naps in the next room. And of course there's Johnny Doolin, who hires himself out as a bodyguard--only to find that his client has no interest in staying alive. The men and women in Seven Slayers are exactly what the title promises: people who kill for love or money or for the sheer, perverse joy of homicide. And this riveting collection is one of the few surviving books by Paul Cain (aka Peter Ruric, aka George Sims), a hard-drinking, enigmatic writer of the 1930s who had as many pseudonyms as he had wives and of whom Raymond Chandler wrote that he had reached in his fiction "a high point in the hard-boiled manner.". Signed. Limited/ Numbered Edition. Seller Inventory # 000087