Raymond ChandlerÕs Unknown Thriller, The Screenplay of Playback by Chandler, Raymond - 1985

The Mysterious Press, 1985-01-01. First Edition. hardcover. Collectible - Good. 0x0x0. 1st printing. Slightly bowed. In a Good jacket. Good copy.

The Mysterious Press. NY. 1985. 1st printing. Cl.w.dj.. A "lost" screenplay by Chandler written in 1947 but never produced, though he later used the title & female lead for a novel. Fine/fine

London: Harrap Limited. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0245543651 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 172 pages .

New York: The Mysterious Press, [1985]., 1985. First edition. Introduction by Robert B. Parker. First trade paperback edition. Fine in pictorial wrappers. A screenplay that Raymond Chandler envisioned as being one of his most important works, "Playback." Unfortunately, this movie was never produced. Years later Chandler used the movie title and the main character for a novel... but the novel was completely different from the screenplay. This is the screenplay --- Raymond Chandler's unknown thriller!

London: Harrap, 1985. First Edition - British. Robert B. Parker wrote the introduction. Very fine in dust jacket.

New York: The Mysterious Press, [1985]., 1985. First edition. Introduction by Robert B. Parker. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Fine in dust jacket with one small chip to head of front panel. A screenplay that Raymond Chandler envisioned as being one of his most important works, "Playback." Unfortunately, this movie was never produced. Years later Chandler used the movie title and the main character for a novel... but the novel was completely different from the screenplay. This is the screenplay --- Raymond Chandler's unknown thriller!

New York: Mysterious Press, 1985. First Edition. Uncorrected proof copy. Robert B. Parker wrote the introduction. Preface by James Pepper. Arguably Chandler’s finest original screenplay, Playback, was never realized as a film. Fine in printed wrappers.

NY: Mysterious Press, 1985. FINE condition in NEAR FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1985. FIRST EDITION of TRADE EDITION. AS NEW, bound in gray cloth with sea foam green endpapers in cobalt blue and silver pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Breath of rub to dust jacket front panel and back points, else FINE. Chandler's original 1948 screenplay with the working title of Playback, never produced. Chandler used title and main female character for unrelated book published in 1959.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

New York: The Mysterious Press, [1985]., 1985. First edition. First edition. One of 250 copies numbered and signed by Robert B. Parker. Preface by James Pepper. Introduction by Robert B. Parker. This is copy 187. Fine in dust jacket, housed in original cloth slipcase. A screenplay that Raymond Chandler envisioned as being one of his most important works, "Playback." Unfortunately, this movie was never produced. Years later Chandler used the movie title and the main character for a novel... but the novel was completely different from the screenplay. This is the screenplay --- Raymond Chandler's unknown thriller!