Search Results: the big sleep by chandler raymond 1888 1959

NY: Knopf, 1966. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_buckram spine. Near Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 219 numbered pages. Blue vinyl board w/gold foil letters on front. Red buckram spine w/gold letters. Belonging to a set of various titles & authors printed by Orange Graphics of Orange, VA and stamped on last page. Q43 in gutter on next to last page specifically for BCE. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unmarked, no DJ. Faint foxing to top edge. Secure ship w/track #. Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay The Simple Act of Murder. Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep. This work established Chandler as the master of the… Read More

London: Pelican Books. Brochado / Paperback / Broché. Bom / Good / Bon. In-8º(197x130). 1 volume de 220-[4] pp.

London : Penguin Books, 2011. Reprint. Softcover. Fine paperback copy. Classic Penguin/Allen Lane design. Particularly well-preserved overall ; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 220 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; Private investigators -- California -- Fiction. Detective Marlowe Fiction 20th century. Private investigators California Los Angeles ; Fiction. Rich people California Los Angeles ; Fiction. Crime novels.

London : Penguin Books, 1970. Reprint. Softcover. Fine paperback copy. Classic Penguin/Allen Lane design. Particularly well-preserved overall ; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 220 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; Private investigators California Los Angeles ; Fiction. Rich people California Los Angeles ; Fiction. Fiction in English American writers 1900- Texts. Detective and mystery stories, American.