Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd / Penguin Group, London, 1988
ISBN 10: 0241019257 ISBN 13: 9780241019252
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Mark Thomas (illustrator). Reprint. First published as a collected edition in the UK in 1964, this is s fifth impression of 1988. Ex library with usual stamps and defects, but not bad for ex library with fairly discreet stamps on copyright page and rear pastedown only. fFep torn away. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised, some lean, not price clipped (£15.99), no personal iscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg copy. 332pp. It was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that Raymond Chandler's (1888-1969), definitive take on the hard boiled detective story first appeared. Here then, from the well thumbed pages of "Black Mask" and "Dime Detective Magazine", are eight of his finest stories. Sharper than a hoodlum's switchblade, more exciting than an unexpected redhead and stronger than a double shot of whisky, they are packed full of the punchy poetry and laconic wit that makes Chandler the undisputed master of his genre.
Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1964
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First Edition. First Impression, preceding the American edition by over five months. Octavo (21.5cm); red textured paper over boards, with titles stamped in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; xii,332pp. Hint of a forward lean, faint foxing to text edges and endpapers, spine ends nudged, a few dog-earned corners smoothed out, with corners gently tapped (though still sharp); Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 21s. net), gently sunned at spine and edges, modest wear to extremities, a few small nicks and tears, scattered foxing, with some dust-soil to rear panel and a few old splash marks; Very Good. Volume gathering eight of Chandler's stories which first appeared in the pages of Black Mask, Dime Detective, and Detective Story Magazine, collected here for the first time. Bruccoli A14.1.a. 7342.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1964
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 5,000 copies. Octavo (22cm); dark teal cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [2],xiv,394,[6]pp. Two small scuffs to lower edge of textblock, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.50), showing light surface wear, some rubbing to extremities, and a few tiny tears to right edge of front flap; Near Fine. Volume gathering eight of Chandler's stories which first appeared in the pages of Black Mask, Dime Detective, and Detective Story Magazine, collected here for the first time. Bruccoli A14.2. 7341.
Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1964
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First UK Edition, preceding all others. The first collection of these stories which originally appeared in "Black Mask" between 1935 and 1941. Near Fine in a lightly spine-toned, Near Fine dust jacket. An attractive copy.
Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1964
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First edition. First edition. xii, 332 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with spine lean, foxing to top and fore edges, slight waviness to pages, in a Very Good+ dust jacket, toned with age and lightly worn, unclipped (21s net). A posthumously-published collection of stories for Chandler's compatriots in the UK, many originally published in Black Mask.
Published by Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1964, 1964
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. [Crime stories] FIRST EDITION (stated). Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.394. Publisher's blue cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Rob Howard, priced at $5.50. Contents and page edges clean, jacket with a little edgewear and a crease to the spine panel, neat tape reinforcement to rear. Near fine. First appearance in book form- contains short stories published in the 1930s in "Black Mask" magazine.
Published by Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964, 1964
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. [Modern literature] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xii; [2]; 394; [6]. Publisher's blue cloth, white titles to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Rob Howard priced at $5.50 to front flap. Light pencil annotations here and there. Gentle wear to jacket extremities. Near fine. An anthology of eight tales from the king of detective fiction. It was Chandler's wish that these stories not be reprinted or collected during his lifetime, as he had borrowed extensively from their plots to furnish/complete his other novels.
Published by Hamish Hamilton,, 1964
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First Edition. Light foxing to fore-edge. otherwise a very nice copy in bright dust-wrapper which has just touch of wear to the head of the spine panel and a little soiling to the lower panel Precedes the American edition.
Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1964
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First edition. First edition. xiv, 394 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with white lettering. Fine in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, a little scuffed at foot, else Fine. An excellent copy.
Hardcover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First American edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. (Trace of light shelf-wear at spine ends on jacket. ) Publicity photo of Raymond Chandler laid-in. (3 1/2" X 4 1/2") Stories from the pulps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 394 pages.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company / Crane Duplicating Service, Inc., Boston & Barnstable, MA, 1964
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20cm); publisher's galley sheets, comb-bound into light blue printed card covers, with a mimeographed publicity letter folded and stapled onto inner front cover; xiv,394,[2]pp. A spirit-duplicated snipe is mounted to the verso of the front cover, with the tentative date typed (8/5/64?) and the proposed price written in red ink ($4.50). Wrappers show modest edge wear, some toning and hand-soil, with a few faint stains to rear cover; contents clean, with the comb-binding intact; Very Good+. Volume gathering eight of Chandler's stories which first appeared in the pages of Black Mask, Dime Detective, and Detective Story Magazine, collected here for the first time. Uncommon in the proof state; while no hard numbers are known for how many such proofs were printed, marketing materials for Crane from this period suggest they would not undertake a job printing fewer than 11 copies of a proof, with other known examples from this period numbering between two to three dozen. Bruccoli A14.2. 7341.