Down these Mean Streets a Man Must Go: Raymond Chandler's Knight

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963 . First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 9" by 6". None. A fine copy of Philip Durham's biographical and critical study of detective fiction writer Raymond Chandler. The first edition, first impression of English professor Philip Durham's biography of hard-boiled crime fiction writer Raymond Chandler. In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Published four years after the author's death, Durham examines the life and writing of Chandler, with a specific focus on the development of - and inspiration behind - Philip Marlowe, the private detective played by Humphrey Bogart in the 1946 adaptation of his novel 'The Big Sleep'.An excellent copy of this well researched biographical work. In the publisher's original cloth binding with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper exceptionally bright. Light marks to front and rear free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine