Macshane Frank Editor (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Pages unmarked. "The Chandler letters, in their variety and vigor, give a fascinating insight into the life and craft of one of the world's greatest and most influential writers of crime fiction." - P.D. James.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The Number Line Indicates A Third Printing Of This Hardcover Edition. Includes Index. The Book Is Bound In Black Cloth With Very Light Blue Lettering On The Spine. Rem. Mk. On The Upper Edges. Hint Of Dust Soiling To The Edges. The Jacket Is Price Clipped And Has Minor Wear. There Is A Long Scratch On The Back. The Jacket Has Been Protected By Clear Plastic.

Paperback. Condition: New. ~ NEW inside and Out! Clean & Crisp Pages w/No markings. (Email for more info./pics).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. 501 pages. Some underlining in pen. Book shows standard wear overall - good research copy. Price clipped dust jacket with wear to edges.

332pp. 8vo Red cloth and yellow cloth back Ex-library, else VG+/no dj.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 113 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 80 pages. William Plomer "Queen Mary and the Norwich Croppers" (poem)" / Henry Green "Before the Great Fire" / Christopher Levenson 3 poems /Maria Dermout "The Copper Dancer" / Paal Brekke 3 poems / Sylvia Sprigge "Quasimodo's Poetry" / Jack Carey 2 poems / Frank MacShane "The Transatlantic Review".

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 320 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 1199 pages, ribbon marker. 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. Now Chandler joins the authoritative Library of America series in a comprehensive two-volume set displaying all the facets of his brilliant talent. In his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), the classic private eye finds his full-fledged form as Philip Marlowe: at once tough, independent, brash, disillusioned, and sensitive?and 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 a 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. Stories and Early Novels also includes every classic noir story from the 1930s 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 magazine?with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue?to his own emerging vision of twentieth-century America. Clean copy. Record # 378974.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. With humor, along with an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling details of dress and behavior, Raymond Chandler 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. Written during the war, The Lady in the Lake (1943) takes Philip Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman?s missing wife expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The darker tone typical of Chandler?s later fiction is evident in The Little Sister (1949), in which an ambitious starlet, a blackmailer, and a seemingly naïve young woman from Manhattan, Kansas, are the key players in a plot that provides fuel for a bitter indictment of Hollywood and Chandler?s most savage portrayal of his adopted city. The Long Goodbye (1953), his most ambitious and self-revealing novel, uncovers a more anguished resonance in the Marlowe character, in a plot that hinges on the betrayal of friendship and the compromises of middle age. Playback (1958), written originally as a screenplay, is Chandler?s seventh and last novel.A special feature of this volume is Chandler?s long-unavailable screenplay for the film noir classic, Double Indemnity (1944), adapted from James M. Cain?s novel. Written with director Billy Wilder, it is one of the best screenplays in American cinema, masterful in construction and dialogue. Supplementing the volume, and providing a more personal glimpse of Chandler?s personality, is a selection of letters and essays?including ?The Simple Art of Murder,? in which Chandler muses on his pulp roots and on the special qualities of his hero and style. 1076 pages. Clean copy. Record # 378973.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First American Edition. Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr., New York, 2000. FINE- hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. A previous owner's name neatly printed on front free end paper, otherwise as new. First US Edition, First Printing.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Gorey, Edward (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. Publisher: Ecco Press, New York, 1991. FINE- in illustrated/pictorial wraps, as issued. First Softcover Edition, First Printing. The bottom corners of the first four pages have tiny dogears, otherwise as new. Originally published in hardcover by Ecco in 1976.

Near fine in very good- jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. 1st. Near fine condition / Near fine condition dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. MacShane Frank(Editor) John Engstead(Cover Artist) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler by Raymond Chandler. First edition, no later printings mentioned. Black cloth with silver lettering. Dust jacket illustrated with a photo of the author. Book condition: A firm square copy. Dustjacket condition: Bright jacket with a tiny closed tear to back cover bottom edge and minor rubbing to points. Clear protective cover. BOOK.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Literary Journal. Trade-sized Paperback. Issue of Spring, 1978. A collection of essays on travel and landscape. 162 pages. AS NEW. All corners pointed. Binding tight, without stress creasing and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 255 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Ed. A collection of letters written by one of the great hard-boiled detective writers, many of them composed during long insomniac nights, in which he comments on all that he saw around him, from his own personal foibles to the works of contemporaries like Hemingway & James M. Cain. A must for any Chandler fan. Letters, Hard-Boiled Detective Novel, Raymond Chandler.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edward Gorey (illustrator). First Edition. 114 pp. Original purple cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly soiled. Spine ends slightly bumped. DJ has mild edge wear. Spine sunned. Illust. w/ b/w photos and drawings. Contents very nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Edward Gorey (illustrator). Good used condition, ink scribble on title page, ex-library, usual library markings, small portion of first page cut off. Dust wrapper - Good used condition, covered with clear protective plastic, small paper label sellotaped onto base of spine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. PAPERMAC Edition. Paperback. 501 pages. Publisher's review slip laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. later printing edition. 1216 pages. 8.25x5.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Edward Gorey. (illustrator). First edition. 38 excerpts and essays and a short story by Chandler, which is illustrated by Gorey. (Toleando B63a). Fine in near fine price clipped dust jacket with light fade to spine and crease on front flap. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. later printing edition. 1216 pages. 8.25x5.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 288 pages. 8.50x5.43x0.65 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 3rd printing edition. 1088 pages. 8.25x5.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Third printing. Foxing on page edges, else near fine in price-clipped, else fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by the editor Frank MacShane.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. box edition. 2275 pages. 8.25x5.25x3.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. REVIEW COPY. (Publisher's printed slip laid-in. ) A very good+ copy in fine DJ. (Edges foxed. ).