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Three Roads
by MACDONALD, Ross
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition of "The Three Roads" by Ross Macdonald
MILLAR, Kenneth. [MACDONALD, Ross, pseudonym]. The Three Roads. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.
First edition. Octavo. 223, [3] pp. Full brown cloth, lettered in blue on front cover and spine, dust jacket. The tiniest of wear on top and bottom of spine. Otherwise, a fine and early Ross Macdonald title in the Daliesque Arthur Hawkins dust jacket.
This was Millar's fourth novel, and the final one published using his real name.
HBS 67416.
$850.
MILLAR, Kenneth. [MACDONALD, Ross, pseudonym]. The Three Roads. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.
First edition. Octavo. 223, [3] pp. Full brown cloth, lettered in blue on front cover and spine, dust jacket. The tiniest of wear on top and bottom of spine. Otherwise, a fine and early Ross Macdonald title in the Daliesque Arthur Hawkins dust jacket.
This was Millar's fourth novel, and the final one published using his real name.
HBS 67416.
$850.
Synopsis
“[The] American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zentih by Macdonald.” — New York Times Book Review “Macdonald should not be limited in audience to connoisseurs of mystery fiction. He is one of a handful of writers in the genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form.” — Los Angeles Times “Most mystery writers merely write about crime. Ross Macdonald writes about sin.” — The Atlantic “Without in the least abating my admiration for Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, I should like to venture the heretical suggestion that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either of them.” —Anthony Boucher “[Macdonald] carried form and style about as far as they would go, writing classic family tragedies in the guise of private detective mysteries.” — The Guardian (London) “[Ross Macdonald] gives to the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did.” — Chicago Tribune
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- Heritage Book Shop, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67416
- Title
- Three Roads
- Author
- MACDONALD, Ross
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Modern Firsts|Mystery and Detective Fiction
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