Author: Raymond Chandler
Title: Killer in the Rain
Description: London, Hamish Hamilton, 1973. Cloth. An excellent copy of this anthology of eight short works of detective fiction from novelist Raymond Chandler. Initially published in pulp magazine, Chandler 'cannibalized' many of these tales for his later novels. The second impression of Hamish Hamilton's later edition of this collection of short stories from Raymond Chandler, in the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.Featuring eight short stories originally published in pulp magazines between 1935 and 1941, with the majority initially published in the Black Mask or Dime Detective Magazine.These stories were not published in a collected edition until 1964, after Chandler's death at his own request. This was because in the process of writing his novels, Chandler had borrowed, expanded, and reworked plots, passages, and characters that had initially appeared in these eight stories. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Externally, exceptionally lovely, with a touch of shelf wear to back strip head. Minor edge wear to head of dust wrapper back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.
Keywords: detective fiction crime fiction anthology pulp fiction crime fiction None
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Title: Killer in the Rain
Description: London, Hamish Hamilton, 1973. Cloth. An excellent copy of this anthology of eight short works of detective fiction from novelist Raymond Chandler. Initially published in pulp magazine, Chandler 'cannibalized' many of these tales for his later novels. The second impression of Hamish Hamilton's later edition of this collection of short stories from Raymond Chandler, in the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.Featuring eight short stories originally published in pulp magazines between 1935 and 1941, with the majority initially published in the Black Mask or Dime Detective Magazine.These stories were not published in a collected edition until 1964, after Chandler's death at his own request. This was because in the process of writing his novels, Chandler had borrowed, expanded, and reworked plots, passages, and characters that had initially appeared in these eight stories. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Externally, exceptionally lovely, with a touch of shelf wear to back strip head. Minor edge wear to head of dust wrapper back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.
Keywords: detective fiction crime fiction anthology pulp fiction crime fiction None
Price: GBP 44.00 = appr. US$ 62.83 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 808F29
- Book number: 808F29
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