Raymond Chandler: A Literary Reference Tapa blanda - 2003

Hachette Books. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Hachette Books. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Carroll & Graf Publishers. Used - Very Good. 2003. Pbk. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy. Very Good.

Carroll & Graf, New York, 2003. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Near Fine Condition. A fun format - personal photos, reproductions of manuscript pages, letters, print ads, movie promotions, dust jackets and paperback covers. Chandler's career from early pulp fiction to the classic detective novels, to his screenplays. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 345 pages, index, for further reading. Book in excellent condition - lightest shelf and edge wear only, no interior marks. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 - 2 pounds. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; ISBN: 0786711795. ISBN/EAN: 9780786711796. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 605152. . 9780786711796

Carroll & Graf. Used - Like New. Like New condition. With remainder mark.

Da Capo Press, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. The covers and spine are both in good condition with no shelf wear damage or color fading. The text block includes extensive photographs to supplement the text. The binding is tight; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003. Softcover. Octavo; G+ Paperback; Gray pictorial spine with Purple and Blue text; Covers have some edgewear, some shelfwear, light creasing near tail edge of spine, bending to corners; Textblock has some writing in pencil on front endpaper, otherwise clean; 345 pp. 1340760. FP New Rockville Stock.

New. The item is Brand New!

xvi+345 pages with photographs, illustrations, facsimiles and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition.
The fifth volume in Carroll and Graf's successful series of literary references, which has included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Hardboiled Mystery Writers, and The Beats, provides an engagingly documented account of Raymond Chandler's life and work. Born in Chicago in 1888 but raised in Victorian England, Chandler was publishing poetry in London literary magazines when he set out at twenty-four for California and a business career. Two decades later he held the directorship of a lucrative oil conglomerate, until heavy drinking ended all that. Forced to return to professional writing for his livelihood, with artistic aspirations Chandler began writing detective stories in the hard-boiled style of Dashiell Hammett for popular pulp magazines. Then, in 1939, he published The Big Sleep, and the world met the slick,… Leer más