The Simple Art of Murder
by CHANDLER, Raymond
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good + - Price Clipped
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY: Norton, 1968. Bound in blue cloth, stamped in black in matching dust jacket. This is the first Norton edition (with the number line ending in "1") of this 533 pp. book with a new introdiction by the Editor. The dust jacket is price clipped and shows archival tape reinforcement to the obverse of the spine ends. A handsome copy of a rather scarce reprint of this classic title. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good + - Price Clipped.
Synopsis
"The Simple Art of Murder" refers to both a critical essay and a collection of short stories written by hard-boiled detective fiction author Raymond Chandler. The essay was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in December 1944. It was reprinted in 1950 by Houghton Mifflin along with eight of Chandler's early stories pre-dating his first novel, The Big Sleep. The essay is considered a seminal piece of literary criticism.
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- Bookseller
- abookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7000249
- Title
- The Simple Art of Murder
- Author
- CHANDLER, Raymond
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good + - Price Clipped
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Norton
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Mystery; Philip Marlowe
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery; Addbooks97;
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- Cloth
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