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Raymond Chandler Simple Art of Murder, 1st Ed.

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Raymond Chandler Simple Art of Murder, 1st Ed.
Raymond Chandler Simple Art of Murder, 1st Ed.
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Author: Chandler, Raymond
Title: The Simple Art of Murder
Place Published: Boston; Cambridge
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press
Date Published: 1950
Description:

(8vo) original tan cloth, dust jacket designed by Artzybasheff. First Edition.

Concluded by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the same name, in which he argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, this collection is mostly drawn. Slight from stories he wrote for the pulps demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form. Bruccoli A9.1.a.

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Slight toning and wear to jacket, small tears at edges; faint toning to cloth, creasing along spine; very good.
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