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A collection of public and private writings by the late author of The Big Sleep and other classic crime novels provides a fascinating glimpse of the writer at work as it brings together early anecdotes, ideas, and descriptions that later appeared in his works, as well as his reflections on Hollywood, the mystery story, prison slang, and American and British writing. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
By Raymond Chandler, Edward Gorey (illustrator) and Frank MacShane (editor)
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9780061227448 | Reprint edition (Perennial, March 1, 2007), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A collection of public and private writings by the late author of The Big Sleep and other classic crime novels provides a fascinating glimpse of the writer at work as it brings together early anecdotes, ideas, and descriptions that later appeared in his works, as well as his reflections on Hollywood, the mystery story, prison slang, and American and British writing.

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Product Description: The Raymond Chandler Papers brings together the correspondence and other previously uncollected writing of America's undisputed master of crime fiction and creator of the iconic private eye Phillip Marlowe, revealing all aspects of the great artist's powerful personality and broad intellectual curiosity...read more
By Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney (editor) and Frank MacShane (editor)
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9780871137869 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Provides an insight into the intensely private life of the author through a selection of his correspondence to his friends, fans, publishers, and fellow writers including Ian Fleming and Somerset Maugham.

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9780802139467, titled "The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction 1909-1959" | Grove Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The Raymond Chandler Papers brings together the correspondence and other previously uncollected writing of America's undisputed master of crime fiction and creator of the iconic private eye Phillip Marlowe, revealing all aspects of the great artist's powerful personality and broad intellectual curiosity.

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Product Description: This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995...read more
By Frank MacShane (editor)
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9780415159210 | Routledge, April 9, 1997, cover price $380.00 | About this edition: This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors.

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Amazon.com Review: If you're looking for the perfect gift for yourself or some other lover of mysteries, this beautifully-made volume from the Library of America series will definitely prove that you care enough to send the very best. And if you haven't picked up The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, or The High Window recently, you'll be amazed at how well they stand up to the test of time...read more
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9781883011079 | Library of America, October 1, 1995, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Amazon.com Review: Raymond Chandler is arguably the best American pulp novelist. His prose is so acutely visual, his characters so raw and intense that it is small wonder that all but one of his books have been made into movies. And his hero Philip Marlowe has graduated into American legend...read more
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9781883011086 | Library of America, October 1, 1995, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Product Description: Borges On WritingIn 1971, Jorge Luis Borges was invited to preside over a series of seminars on his writing at Columbia University. This book is a record of those seminars, which took the form of informal discussions between Borges, Norman Thomas di Giovanni--his editor and translator, Frank MacShane--then head of the writing program at Columbia, and the students...read more
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9780880013680 | Reprint edition (Perennial, July 1, 1994), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Borges On WritingIn 1971, Jorge Luis Borges was invited to preside over a series of seminars on his writing at Columbia University.

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Product Description: is a veritable cornucopia of contemporary world fiction that brings together a number of renowned authors including Italo Calvino, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kobo Abe, Marguerite Duras, Jorge Luis Borges, and Samuel Beckett, as well as the work of lesser known talents such as He Liwei, Haroldo Conti, Bob den Uyl, and Yasunari Kawabata...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780231079921 | Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $83.50 | About this edition: -- Grace Schulman

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9780231079938 | Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: is a veritable cornucopia of contemporary world fiction that brings together a number of renowned authors including Italo Calvino, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kobo Abe, Marguerite Duras, Jorge Luis Borges, and Samuel Beckett, as well as the work of lesser known talents such as He Liwei, Haroldo Conti, Bob den Uyl, and Yasunari Kawabata.

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In letters written between 1937 and 1959, Chandler comments on his work and characters, fellow mystery and detective fiction writers, world events, and life in California
By Frank MacShane (editor)
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9780385295314 | Delacorte Pr, May 1, 1989, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: In letters written between 1937 and 1959, Chandler comments on his work and characters, fellow mystery and detective fiction writers, world events, and life in California

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9780671434991, titled "The Life of John O'Hara" | Pocket Books, October 1, 1987, cover price $5.95

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A collection of short stories reveals the diversity, insight, and verismilitude of O'Hara's work as he wrote about Pennsylvania, Hollywood, and New York cafe society
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9780816140190 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1986), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories reveals the diversity, insight, and verisimilitude of O'Hara's work as he wrote about Pennsylvania, Hollywood, and New York cafe society

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9780394743110 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, September 1, 1986), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories reveals the diversity, insight, and verismilitude of O'Hara's work as he wrote about Pennsylvania, Hollywood, and New York cafe society

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Traces the life of Jones, whose first novel, From Here to Eternity, made him famous, explains the reasons for the years he spent in France, and discusses the themes of his work
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9780395353554 | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 1985, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: Traces the life of Jones, whose first novel, From Here to Eternity, made him famous, explains the reasons for the years he spent in France, and discusses the themes of his work

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A collection of short stories by the award-winning author reveals the rich diversity, insight, and verisimilitude of O'Hara's work as written about rural Pennsylvania, Hollywood, and New York cafe society
By Frank MacShane (editor) and John O'Hara
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9780394540832 | Random House Inc, February 1, 1985, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories by the award-winning author reveals the rich diversity, insight, and verisimilitude of O'Hara's work as written about rural Pennsylvania, Hollywood, and New York cafe society
9780517648933 | Random House Inc, February 1, 1985, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: A collection of short stories by the award-winning author reveals the rich diversity, insight, and verisimilitude of O'Hara's work as written about rural Pennsylvania, Hollywood, and New York cafe society

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In letters written between 1937 and 1959, Chandler comments on his work and characters, fellow mystery and detective fiction writers, world events, and life in California
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9780231050807 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 1981, cover price $87.00 | About this edition: In letters written between 1937 and 1959, Chandler comments on his work and characters, fellow mystery and detective fiction writers, world events, and life in California

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Draws upon Chandler's interviews and his correspondence with colleagues and lovers to recreate the world and illuminate the works of the novelist who gained fame as the creator of private detective Philip Marlowe
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9780525145523 | E P Dutton, May 1, 1976, cover price $2.98

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9780140047912 | Viking Pr, February 1, 1978, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Draws upon Chandler's interviews and his correspondence with colleagues and lovers to recreate the world and illuminate the works of the novelist who gained fame as the creator of private detective Philip Marlowe

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9780710069573 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, June 1, 1972, cover price $69.95

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