PICK-UP ON NOON STREET. by Chandler, Raymond - 1952

Ballantine, 1973. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Random House Publishing Group, 1980. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Random House Publishing Group, 1980. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Ballantine Books, 1985. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1978. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. edge wear; This is one of three collections extracted from The Simple Art of Murder, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1950. The collection contains four stories, all about fifty pages long. Each is set in Los Angeles, centered on a tough-guy protagonist, and told by a third-person narrator who describes actions rather than thoughts. All first appeared in detective magazines. Philip Marlowe, hero of Chandler’s novels, is nowhere to be found. In the title story, originally published as “Noon Street Nemesis” in 1936, undercover narc Pete Anglish accidentally becomes involved in a scheme to extort money from a movie star. “Smart-Aleck Kill” (1934), another tale with a Hollywood angle, tells of P. I. Johnny Dalmas’s attempts to unravel a bogus blackmail plot. In… Read More

Ballantine Books, 1978. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Ballantine 02666-7, 7-72, 1st ballantine paperback printing,, 1972. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Ballantine 02666-7, 7-72, 1st ballantine paperback printing,, 1972. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text.

UsedGood. 1977, third printing, same cover art. mild water staining inside front cover/endpages. Good solid paperback with moderate reading/age wear, may have some light markings, pages may have some mild tanning. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, Inc., 1952. First Mass Market Paperback Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Fair. Orig. published in hardcover in 1950, this is the First Printing of the first mass market paperback edition from Pocket Books (#846) from 1952. Condition downgraded to only Fair due to heavy edgewear, particularly heavy rubbing along edge of spine-front cover & a large diagonal crease across lower front cover. Otherwise, very clean, binding tight & square, pages modestly tanned around edges (commensurate with age). NO writing/underlining/highlighting; NOT ex-lib. Nicely protected in new mylar collector bag & Free!Photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have on hand.