More Good Old Stuff, First Edition, 1st Printing, Unread

MacDonald, John D.

ISBN 10: 0394538986 / ISBN 13: 9780394538983

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1984

About this Item

Hardcover, Condition: Fine/As New, Only due to light wear to edges, and "Fine" dust jacket, otherwise As New, UNREAD, tight binding, never fully opened past copyright page, No marks or stamps, Bound with Deckle edge pages, with black cloth boards, Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, due to toning/fading to top edges and tiny tear to fold of back flap at top of crease, repaired and wrapped in Mylar protective wrap, First Edition as printed on copyright page, (assumed) 1st Printing being a First Edition, Original $15.95 price Not clipped, 1 of 6 in the Collections by John D. MacDonald: The Good Old Stuff (1961) End of the Tiger (1966) Seven (1971) Other Times Other Worlds (1978) More Good Old Stuff (1984) Death Quotient (2010).

Seller Inventory # ABE-1707084002914

Bibliographic Details

• Title: More Good Old Stuff, First Edition, 1st Printing, Unread
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394538986
• ISBN 13: 9780394538983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery and Mystery Series
  • John D. MacDonald
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A collection of fourteen stories, representing MacDonald's early fiction from the 1940s and 1950s, includes tales of mystery and suspense

About the Author

John D. MacDonald was born in Pennsylvania and married Dorothy Prentiss in 1937, graduating from Syracuse University the following year and receiving an MBA from Harvard in 1939. It was Dorothy who was responsible for the publication of his first work, when she submitted a short story that he had sent home while on military service. It was initially rejected by Esquire but went on to be published by Story magazine - and so began MacDonald's writing career. One of the best-loved and most successful of all the masters of hard-boiled crime and suspense, John D. Macdonald was producing brilliant fiction long after many of his contemporaries had been forgotten, and is still highly regarded today. The Executioners, possibly the best known of his non-series novels, was filmed as Cape Fear in 1962 and 1991, but many of the crime thrillers he produced between 1953 and 1964 are considered masterpieces, and he drew praise from such literary greats as Kurt Vonnegut and Stephen King, who declared him to be 'the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller'. His novels are often set in his adopted home of Florida, including those featuring his famous series character Travis McGee, which appeared between 1964 and 1985. He served as president of the Mystery Writers of America and in 1972 was elected a Grand Master, an honour granted only to the greatest crime writers of their generation, including Ross MacDonald, John Le Carre and P. D. James. He won many awards throughout his long career, and was the only mystery writer ever to win the National Book Award, for The Green Ripper.