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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.
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RED WIND: A Collection of Short Stories
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Red Wind: A Collection of Short Stories
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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.
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Red Wind: A Collection of Short Stories
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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.
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Red Wind: A Collection of Short Stories
by Chandler, Raymond Thornton (1888-1959)
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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…
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RED WIND: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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Cleveland & New York: World Publishing Company / Tower Books, 1946. First Edition. A volume collecting five hard-boiled stories, first published between 1933-1939 in the pages of Black Mask, Dime Detective, and Saturday Evening Post: "Red Wind," "Blackmailers Don't Shoot," "I'll Be Waiting," "Goldfish," and "Guns at Cyrano's." Really a quite exemplary copy of a notoriously cheaply-made book. Bruccoli AA2. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); black cloth, blocked and titled in brick red on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; [10],11-253,[3]pp. Base of spine gently nudged, else a fresh, Fine copy, with the red topstain bright and unfaded, and without the usual heavy tanning to the text edges. Dustjacket flaps are evenly machine-clipped, showing some trivial wear and a few tiny tears to extremities; very Near Fine, with the sensitive spine colors notably unfaded.
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