Title: The Simple Art of Murder Author: Chandler, Raymond Place: Boston Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Date: 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 mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form. Bruccoli A9.1.a. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket edge worn and with some chipping to spine ends; slight spine lean and some darkening to cloth, bookplate; very good. Item number: 284390
Title: The Simple Art of Murder Author: Chandler, Raymond Place: Boston Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Date: 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 mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form. Bruccoli A9.1.a. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket edge worn and with some chipping to spine ends; slight spine lean and some darkening to cloth, bookplate; very good. Item number: 284390
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