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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Library of America
Date Published: 1995-10-01
ISBN-13:9781883011079ISBN:1883011078
Description: Good. Spine has a slight tendency to slant, but stays straight when corrected. Otherwise very good with slight wear to the dust jacket edges. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Library of America
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781883011079ISBN:1883011078
Description: Good in Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Good Plus Hardcover w/light board wear, light shelf smudging to page edges. Front board slightly bowed. Text free of notes, binding good. Dust Jacket light rubbing, no large tears. Confirmation on all Domestic Orders! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Library of America
Date Published: 1995-10-01
ISBN-13:9781883011079ISBN:1883011078
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781883011079. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Library of America
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781883011079ISBN:1883011078
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Edition: First Edition Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Library of America, New York
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781883011079ISBN:1883011078
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Pp; 1197, 1076. Library of America edition of Chandler's works. Two volumes, both copies fine in dust jackets. Contains all the classic novels; The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The Lady in the Lake, The Long Goodbye, as well as stories, essays and letters. read more
Binding: Hard
Publisher: Library of America, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781883011079ISBN:1883011078
Description: Fair in Fair jacket. Ex Library "...includes every story that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel..."; Moderate library use. Usual library markings. Pp 1199. read more
Edition: Reprint. Second Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Library of America, New York, New York
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781883011079ISBN:1883011078
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. The Dust Jacket is protected with a mylar wrapper. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 1216 p. Library of America (Hardcover), 80. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Library of America
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781883011079ISBN:1883011078
Description: VG/G+ 1883011078. Dust jacket shows a little wear; book is clean and tight.; Library of America; 1.5 x 8.1 x 5.2 Inches; 1216 pages. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: LIBRARY OF AMERICA
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781883011079ISBN:1883011078
Description: New. Stories and Early Novels includes every story that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel-thirteen in all. Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp m... read more
Edition: 1st Edition, 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Library of America, New York
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781883011079ISBN:1883011078
Description: Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 1883011078. No defects. NO names or ANY markings.; 511002; 1199 Pages. read more
"Along with a dozen stories, this edition includes The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely and The High Window. The stories are quickly familiar--friendless shamus sets off to solve case of either blackmail or stolen pearls (seriously, you'd think he'd at least vary the gems); he gets on by being disarmingly open with all but the key facts, but is too hard boiled for anyone to fully trust him. Story ends in a big shootout in which friendless shamus is miraculously spared. It's in the novels, though, that he hits his stride. The shamus is the same guy, now named Marlowe, but the plots are more elegant and layered, taking full advantage of an interesting moment in crime--post-prohibition with the bootlegging infrastructure still in place, looking for a new racket and new contraband to keep it in business. The cynical exchanges and piercing descriptions don't let up and it didn't take long for me to realize that Chandler is S.J. Perelman with a mystery to solve. Either one of them could have written "From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made to be seen from thirty feet away." or "She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket." I've barreled on to volume two, knowing it means I will soon have no new Chandler novels in my future. Pre-Chandler this may have made me sad, but now, hell, I'm not going to get all soft about it."
"Back in the late 1980's I found a copy of Raymond Chandler's "The High Window" in my grandparents collection and read it. "The High Window" is a novel about private detective Philip Marlowe, and I was hooked. I later found that his works were included in the Library of America collection, and bought both volumes.
This volume includes all of Chandlers's pulp stories, and the first three Philip Marlowe novels: The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely (my favorite) and The High Window. The protagonists in the pulp stories have different names...Mallory, DeRuse, Sam Delaguerra, Johnny Dalmas, but they all share to some extent the characteristics of Philip Marlowe. Tough yet tender, cynical and romantic, dedicated to doing their jobs and with a code.
The Marlowe novels at their best are not just detective mystery stories; they're literature about the best and worst in human beings. The writing is remarkable, is a joy to read and should be read out loud."
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