Raymond Chandler was an American screenwriter and novelist. Chandler was a detective fiction writer and published seven novels and additionally short stories. His fame rests on the sequence of novels featuring Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep (1939), his masterpieces are: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Little Sister (1949), and The Long Goodbye (1953).
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New York: E.P. Dutton, 1952. First edition, stated, in first issue dust jacket with $2.50 price and triangular framing device on "A New Mike Hammer Mystery" This popular Mike Hammer mystery was the basis for Robert Aldrich's 1955 film noir classic of the same name, starring Ralph Meeker as the..... Read More Item Details for Kiss Me, Deadly Add to Wish List
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London: Hamish Hamilton, [1964]. First edition. The first posthumous collection of Chandler's early stories, with Durham's pioneering appreciation of Chandler's art and technique. Read More Item Details for Killer in the Rain. With an introduction by Philip Durham Add to Wish List
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Los Angeles: 29 May 1942. Chandler assigns film rights for his third novel, completed in March 1942, here still bearing his original title, The Brasher Doubloon as well as the alternate title that Chandler gave it at Blanche Knopf’s suggestion. The High Window was published by Knopf in August 1942..... Read More Item Details for Original Typed Document, signed in ink (“Raymond Chandler”), dated 29 May 1942, assigning exclusive motion picture rights for his unpublished book “entitled BRASHER DOUBLOON (alternate title HIGH WINDOW)” Add to Wish List
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