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Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.Dorley House Books, Inc.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st printing; 441 clean, unmarked pages.
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Seller: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, CanadaM.A.D. fiction
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First edition ,first printing of a fine hardcover in an as new dustjacket.36 hard boiled short stories from the 1920s to the 1990s. Many top writers of the genre. The list is in the seller images.
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Seller: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.zenosbooks
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1995. Oxford University Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0195084993. 532 pages. hardcover. Jacket design: Irving Freeman Design Co. keywords: Mystery Crime American Hardboiled Anthology. DESCRIPTION - What are th…e ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing and sex, said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blond, a jealous husband, and, of course, a tough-but-tender P.I. the likes of Sam Spade or Philop Marlowe. Perhaps Raymond Chandler summed it up best in his description of Dashiell Hammett's style: Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it. .He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes. Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind, with over half of the stories never published before in book form. Included are thirty-six sublimely suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolutiuon of this quintessentially American art form, from its earliest beginnings during the Golden Age of the legendary pulp magazine Black Mask in the 1920s, to the arrival of the tough digest Manhunt in the 1950s, and finally leading up to present-day hard-boiled stories by such writers as James Ellroy. Here are eight decades worth of the best writing about betrayal, murder, and mayhem: from Hammett's 1925 tour de force The Scorched Face, in which the disappearance of two sisters leads Hammett's never-named detective, the Continental Op, straight into a web of sexual blackmail amidst the West Coast elite, to Ed Gorman's 1992 The Long Silence After, a gripping and powerful rendezvous involving a middle class insurance executive, a Chicago streetwalker, and a loaded .38. Other delectable contributions include Brush Fire by James M. Cain, author of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Raymond Chandler's I'll Be Waiting, where, for once, the femme fatale is not blond but a redhead, a Ross Macdonald mystery starring Macdonald's most famous creation, the cryptic Lew Archer, and The Screen Test of Mike Hammer by the one and only Micky Spillane. The hard-boiled cult has more in common with the legendary lawmen of the Wild West than with the gentleman and lady sleuths of traditional drawing room mysteries, and this direct line of descent is on brilliant display in two of the most subtle and tautly written stories in the collection, Elmore Leonard's 3:10 to Yuma and John D. MacDonald's Nor Iron Bars. Other contributors include Evan Hunter (better known as Ed McBain), Jim Thompson, Helen Nielsen, Margaret Maron, Andrew Vachss, Faye Kellerman, and Lawrence Block. Compellingly and compulsively readable, Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is a page-turner no mystery lover will want to be without. Containing many notable rarities, it celebrates a genre that has profoundly shaped not only American literature and film, but how we see our heroes and oursleves. inventory #48153.
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Published by Oxford University Press, 1994
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Seller: Dearly Departed Books, Alliance, OH, U.S.A.Dearly Departed Books
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition with the full number line present. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. Rubs to the jacket's corners and spine tips. Includes stories by Norah Lofts, Rafael Sabatini, Edgar Wallace, A.E.W. Mason, and others.
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Seller: Rainy Day Books, Courtenay, BC, CanadaRainy Day Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Gift inscription inside, light finger smudges to lower corners of pages.
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Published by Oxford University Press, 1995
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Seller: Dearly Departed Books, Alliance, OH, U.S.A.Dearly Departed Books
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition with the entire number line present bound in black boards. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Stories by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, John D. MacDonald, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, and others.
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Published by Oxford University Press, 1995
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Seller: MDS BOOKS, Mississauga, ON, CanadaMDS BOOKS
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine book in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Edited by Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian. Signed by both editors on the title page. Thirty six stories by thirty six crime writers, including work by Dashiell Hammett, Paul Cain…, Raymond Chandler, Elmore Leonard, David Goodis, Ross MacDonald, Jim Thompson and James Elroy amongst a host of others. Signed by Author(s).
