Author: Chandler, Raymond

Farewell, My Lovely

By: Chandler, Raymond

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard : 1992

Edition: Later Printing

Seller ID: 27942

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[minor handling wear, very slight bumping to lower corners of both covers, light age-toning to edges of text block]. Trade PB The second Philip Marlowe, the basis for one really good movie (MURDER, MY SWEET, 1944, with Dick Powell as Marlowe), one pretty good one (1975, using the book's title, with Robert Mitchum as probably the best Marlowe ever), and one that changed all the names but ripped off the plot (THE FALCON TAKES OVER, 1942).
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The Big Sleep

By: Chandler, Raymond

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard : 1992

Edition: Later Printing

Seller ID: 27949

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[faint edgewear to covers, otherwise virtually as-new]. Trade PB Chandler's first novel, and the introduction of Philip Marlowe. The basis for two film adaptations: the terrific Howard Hawks-directed version from 1946 (with Humphrey Bogart as Marlowe), which rewards multiple re-viewings, and the far-less-than-terrific 1978 version, of which a single viewing was more than enough. (The latter might have seemed like a good idea at the time, given that its star (Robert Mitchum) had been an excellent Marlowe just a couple of years before, in Dick Richards's FAREWELL, MY LOVELY, but two (at least)...
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The Long Goodbye [his Hollywood agent's copy]

By: Chandler, Raymond

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1954 (c.1953)

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 15021

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[solid copy, moderate wear to cloth at top and bottom edges, agency stamp on ffep and title page (see notes), old tape marks on both pastedowns; jacket is well-worn, with several large chips, significant paper loss at spine ends (including loss of about half the title), tape marks on both flaps]. The first American edition of Chandler's last great novel (published in England the previous year), this copy bearing the stamp of Chandler's long-time Hollywood agent, H.N. Swanson, on the ffep and the title page. This would have been one of several copies that Swanson would have had on hand, with ...
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Double Indemnity

By: Wilder, Billy, and Raymond Chandler

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, University of California Press : (c.2000)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27943

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[faint handling wear only, virtually as new]. Trade PB The "complete screenplay" for the classic film noir, identified on the copyright page as "a facsimile of the original shooting script" but otherwise unsourced except for the statement "published by permission of Billy Wilder." (Which is a bit nonsensical because Wilder would not have owned any publication rights to the script -- although perhaps this accounts for the fact that the cover and title page design suggest that Wilder was the sole author, with the inclusion of Chandler's name as co-writer in somewhat smaller type beneath. Billy...
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Author: Chandler, Raymond

Farewell, My Lovely

The Big Sleep

The Long Goodbye [*his Hollywood agent's copy*]

Double Indemnity

The Long Goodbye [his Hollywood agent's copy]