Search Results: red wind by chandler raymond

WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1946-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable/Missing. 0x0x0. A readers copy in poor condition.

Penguin Books Ltd, 1982. Paperback. Fair. Signs of wear on the cover. Slightly creased cover. Dog-eared pages. Different cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations.

Dove Entertainment Inc, 1989-06. Audio Cassette. Good.

USA: TOWER Books; World Publishing Company, 1946. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition By This Publisher.. 370 pages CHANDLER, RAYMOND - Red Wind (TOWER Books; World Publishing Company; 1st Printing; March 1946; Hardcover = VG, Tape resdiue to front end pages; pen to front end & backend page; NO Dust Jacket; >> weight = 305 grams Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Paperback. Very Good.

Audio Literature, 1989-06. Audio Cassette. Very Good. *Tapes have been listened to, they still play perfectly. The box shows wear but is intact and looks good.

World Publishing Company, 1946. First printing. Very good. 8vo. Black boards, with red and black lettering on spine and front cover. 253 pages. Wear to both sine ends. Pages browned. No names or marks to text. Lacking the dust-jacket. First Printing of the Tower Books Edition, March 1946.

Brasil: Livros Do Brasil, 1987. TEXT IN PORTUGUESE Some edgewear and creasing of spine otherwise a good solid reading copy. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Cleveland - New York: The World Publishing Company, 1946. First printing, March 1946. Black cloth boards, red cover and spine title design, moderate wear, discoloration. Pages very good. Bind solid. Dj worn, chip; protected in new clear sleeve. Superb short stories of crime and adventure by the auhor of The Big Sleep. Published for the first time in hardcover by World Publishing Co. Stories originally published in periodicals: Black Mask, Dime Detective, and The Saturday Evening Post. In these pages, Chandler displays his remarkable ability for creating vivid characters, tight plots, and scenes of glittering evil. Contains: Red Wind; Blackmailers Don't Shoot, I'll Be Waiting; Goldfish; and, Guns at Cyrano's. 253 pages.. First Tower Books Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Cleveland: Tower Books, 1946. First Edition of this collection; reprinting stories that appeared earlier in paperback. Pages browned as always; blind stamped initials on the front free endpaper; very good in a dust jacket with numerous small ships and tears.

Stated First Printing - March 1946. Dust jacket has been glued to heavier paper and pasted to inside of covers. Pages have age tanning, but are tight. Dust jacket has edgewear.

World Publishing, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

World Publishing, 1946. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1946]. First edition. Text paper age darkened, a nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket with edge wear with tiny chip, several closed tears and some creases. (24729). Octavo, cloth. First publication of these five stories in a hardcover book. The stories appeared earlier (with five others) in FIVE MURDERERS (1944) and FIVE SINISTER CHARACTERS (1945), two paperbound books published by Avon. Bruccoli AA2. Hubin, p. 153.

253 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original black cloth with red lettering to spine and front cover. (Firsts April 2000 page 52) First edition in book form.These short stories first appeared in the following periodicals Red Wind, January 1938 in dime Detective; Blackmailers Don't Shoot 1933 in the Black Mask; I'll Be Waiting 1939 in the Saturday Evening Post; Goldfish 1936 in Black Mask; Guns at Cyrano's 1936 in Black Mask.Critics and writers, ranging from W. H. Auden to Evelyn Waugh to Ian Fleming, greatly admired the finely wrought prose of Raymond Chandler . Although his swift-moving, hardboiled style was inspired mostly by Dashiell Hammett, his sharp and lyrical similes are original: "The muzzle of the Luger looked like the mouth of the Second Street tunnel"; "The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips", defining private eye fiction genre , and leading to the coining of the adjective 'Chandleresque', which is subject and object of parody and pastiche. Yet, Philip… Read More

Cleveland: World Publishing, 1946. Dust jacket has large piece missing on back panel top and base of spine. In mylar. First printing stated. Some browning to text block. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Vg Plus/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

World Publishing, 1946. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First US edition hardback in original dustjacket , Book has no inscriptions , no spine lean , usual page toning with age , no offsetting to endpapers , minor pushing to spine tips and corners, , in jacket that is not faded , toned with age , small chip missing bottom spine edge , minor wear to edges, all 4 corners clipped, not a remainder , not an ex-library copy. All orders are sent in quality inert removable dust jacket plastic, bubble-wrapped and in a strong box. We are a full time Independent bookseller established in 1999..

New York:: Avon Book Company, 1945. 5" wide by 7.5" tall. Tight copy. No store stamp or owner's name. Brown speckles (foxing) to inner covers. Light cover creases. No chips. No tears. Lightly rubbed spine is square/flat, with no creases. Pages are a bit age toned, as usual. Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #28. Cover price: 25 cents. This is the FIRST BOOK APPEARANCE and the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of 5 detective tales that, in 1938 and 1939, appeared in 5 separate issues of DIME DETECTIVE or THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. Includes: TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS; PEARLS ARE A NUISANCE; I'LL BE WAITING; THE KING IN YELLOW; and RED WIND. The striking, bright, full-color cover painting (artist not credited) features the head of a beautiful woman, surrounded by 4 smaller heads. [This FIRST EDITION should NOT be confused with New Avon Library #88, a reprint with the same title issued the following year]. Bruccoli A6.1. . First Printing of the First Collected ed. Soft Cover. Very Good… Read More

The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York., 1946. First edition. Octavo. 253 pages. Five stories that had been printed in Dime Detective, Black Mask and Saturday Evening Post.Cheap paper tanned as usual. Tail of spine slightly pushed. Near fine in very good dustwrapper slightly rubbed and nicked at the edges and with the red lettering faded on the spine.