Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings (LOA #80) : The Lady in the Lake / the Little Sister / the Long Goodbye / Playback / Double Indemnity (screenplay) / Essays and Letters by Chandler, Raymond

Library of America, The. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Library of America, 1995-10-01. hardcover. Used: Good.

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Library of America. Very Good. 1995. Hardcover. 1883011086 . Blue hardback covers in very good condition. This is the deluxe edition, housed in a cream-colored publisher's slipcase. ; Library Of America; 5.27 X 1.31 X 8.15 inches; 1088 pages .

New York: The Library of America, 1995. 5th printing. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 5th printing, 1995. A Fine copy in Near Fine slipcase. 8vo., 1076 pp. Blue cloth in the publisher's white slipcase. Silk ribbon marker. The slipcase has a hint of wear.

Library of America, October 1995. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. Slight shelf ware to the corners, but nothing major. No foxing or yellowing to pages. Sixth printing.

Stated first printing. Slipcased edition. Square spine, clean crisp pages, no writing or marks, no folded page corners. Slipcase clean and unworn. No dust jacket as issued. Not a remainder.

Library of America. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 1883011086 . As new with minimal wear. From private collection of former book reviewer. ; Library Of America; 8.0 X 5.0 X 1.25 inches; 1076 pages .

NY: Library of America, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. With humor, along with an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling details of dress and behavior, Raymond Chandler created a distinctive fictional universe out of the dark side of sunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both crime writing and the American language. Written during the war, The Lady in the Lake (1943) takes Philip Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman’s missing wife expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The darker tone typical of Chandler’s later fiction is evident in The Little Sister (1949), in which an ambitious starlet, a blackmailer, and a seemingly naïve young woman from Manhattan, Kansas, are the key players in a plot that provides fuel for a bitter indictment of Hollywood and Chandler’s most savage portrayal of his adopted city. The Long Goodbye… Read More

NY: Library of America, 1995. 1st printing; dj in mylar; navy c w/gilt titles; satin marker; 1076 clean, unmarked pages. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8 Vo.