Edited by Ralph B Sipper (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Light foxing on top and fore edge of book. Dust jacket is foxed, with a bit of edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Santa Barbara, California: Cordelia Editions, 1984. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($25). NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. 14 photos. Edited by Ralph B. Sipper. Two long, hitherto unpublished, essays by Ross Macdonald (pseudonym of Kenneth Millar) on detective fiction, together with essays on Macdonald and his work by 25 contributors including Margaret Millar, Hugh Kenner, John D. MacDonald, Otto Penzler, Reynolds Price, Diane Wakoski, Thomas Berger, Matthew Bruccoli, George Sims, Robert B. Parker, Richard Layman, Julian Symons, Eudora Welty, etc. Published in a small edition (said to be 1000) that quickly went out of print. Bound in the original green cloth. Complete with dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 172pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. …

Paper. 1st trade Edition. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE EDITOR OF THE BOOK, RALPH B. SIPPER. Terrific book focusing on the life and work of the great Ross MacDonald, (Kenneth Millar). Includes two unpublished (at the time) essays by MacDonald on the work of other mystery-detective authors + pieces on MacDonald by a wide range of authors including Reynolds Price, Margaret Millar, Diane Wakoski, Thomas Berger, Eudora Welty & many others. 8pgs. of photos. Fine. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed. SIGNED; Signed by the editor, Ralph Sipper, on title page. Very Good in Very Good unclipped dust jacket. Gently used with NO markings in text; binding is tight. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

First Edition. Fine copy in slightly edgeworn dust-wrapper which has a faint inscription on the lower panel.

First edition. 8vo. Limited to 250 copies numbered and signed by both the author and Eudora Welty, who wote the Foreword. This is copy 194. Fine in full black leather. "Kenneth Millar (aka Ross Macdonald) did not sit down and write an autobiography as such; it has arrived of itself, in its own time, and is an accretion - a circumstance that seems characteristic of this modest and meditative man. When this writer's concentrated gaze does take in himself, it is direct and central. What we have is the clear, the clarified, result of long thoughts. .we are quietly offered not details but essences."--Eudora Welty, from the Foreword. …