Author: Raymond Chandler; Tom Hiney; Frank MacShane
Title: The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Non-Fiction 1909-1959
Description: London, Hamish Hamilton, 2000. First edition. Cloth. An anthology of essays and letters from renowned detective fiction author, Raymond Chandler. Being "both an ideal companion of Chandler's work and an intriguing account of the man himself." First edition. Featuring the original unclipped dustwrapper. Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature, and is considered by many to be a founder, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other 'Black Mask' writers, of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. In original publishers' cloth binding, and original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, cloth is very smart. Dustwrapper also smart, although with some very light marks to the rear. Internally, firmly bound, bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.

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