The Long Goodbye
by Chandler, Raymond
New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, 1992. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x7. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy. 1992 Trade Paperback. 379 pp. In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a... Read More
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Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories; The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window (The Library of America Series Book 79)
by Chandler, Raymond
New York: The Library of America, 1995. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x1x8. First thus. Includes publisher's slipcase. An excellent copy. 1995 Hard Cover. 1199 pp. Original blue cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of works by the detective novelist whose books inspired numerous films. Includes: Pulp Stories; The Big Sleep;... Read More
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Farewell, My Lovely: A Philip Marlowe Mystery
by Chandler, Raymond
New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Random House, Inc, 2016. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2016 Trade Paperback. 292 pp. Farewell My Lovely, Raymond Chandler's second novel in the Philip Marlowe series, transcends the genre it helped to create, and is now (deservedly) viewed by many as literature and as social... Read More
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Killer in the Rain
by Chandler, Raymond; Durham, Philip
Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9x6x1. First edition, first state jacket ($5.50 price on flap). Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket edges a bit rubbed with 1/2 inch closed tear and associated crease along top edge. 1964 Hard Cover. xi, 332 pp. "Killer in... Read More
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The Raymond Chandler Omnibus: The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, The High Window, The Lady in the Lake
by Chandler, Raymond; Powell, Lawrence Clark
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. Book club edition. A couple tiny blemishes to jacket, edges very faintly foxed. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked. 1964 Hard Cover. 625, [1] pp. 8vo. Four mysteries by the author known for his hard boiled detective stories, several of which... Read More
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5 Murderers (New Avon Library 63) [Five]
by Chandler, Raymond
New York: New Avon Library, 1944. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Edges lightly rubbed, spine toned, back corner lightly creased, pages lightly toned. 1944 Mass Market Paperback. 286, [6] pp. Paperback in original wrappers. New Avon Library #63. Cover features characters on playing cards. Five short mysteries in one volume, by the author of The Big Sleep.... Read More
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Playback [A Philip Marlowe Mystery]
by Chandler, Raymond
New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Random House, Inc, 1988. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x7. Modern reprint (13-digit ISBN). Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy. 1988 Trade Paperback. 166 pp. Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson. In noir master Raymond Chandler's Playback, Philip Marlowe is hired by an influential... Read More
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The Lady in the Lake: A Philip Marlowe Mystery
by Chandler, Raymond
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. Reeves, Norman. First edition, first printing (stated, $2.00 jacket price). Jacket edges rubbed, jacket and endpapers lightly toned, 1 inch smudge on margins of four text pages. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked. 1943 Hard Cover. 216 pp. 8vo. Green cloth, dark green... Read More
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The Big Sleep
by Chandler, Raymond
New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, 1992. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x7. Baker, Richard. Modern reprint (13-digit ISBN). Brand new from publisher. 1992 Trade Paperback. 231 pp. Inspiration for the 1946 film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters,... Read More
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The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window (Everyman's Library 255)
by Chandler, Raymond; Johnson, Diane
New York: Everyman's Library / Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 5x1x8. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2002 Hard Cover. 625, [1] pp. 8vo. Three mysteries by the author known for his hard boiled detective stories, several of which inspired films. He also had a habit of using particularly inventive analogies and metaphors, which makes reading... Read More
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Mysticism: The Journey Within
by Chaney, Robert
Astara, Upland, California / City of Commerce, Cal: Astara's Library of Mystical Classics / Stockton Trade Press, Inc, 1979. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Signed by author. Inscribed without attribution, signed, and numbered by author ('Best wishes on the Great Journey - Robert' on front endpaper, numbered on bookplate). The limitation was likely 750 or... Read More
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Mao: The Unknown Story
by Chang, Jung; Halliday, Jon
New York: Anchor Books, 2006. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x1x9. Reprint. Remainder mark, light edge wear. 2006 Trade Paperback. xi, 801 pp. "The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never... Read More
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Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit
by Chaplin, Joyce E
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x1x8. First printing. Remainder mark on page base. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2012 Trade Paperback. xxi, 535 pp. For almost 500 years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth - by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling,... Read More
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Transcontinent 1910: The Automotive Adventures of Two Young Men
by Chaplin, Mark H
Rochester, N.Y: Mark H. Chaplin, 2012. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10x10x1. First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 2012 Large Hardcover. 115 pp. Photographs, maps, and facsimiles of documents throughout. "Transcontinent 1910 is the story of two MIT students who late in their studies embarked on a transcontinental automobile trip from... Read More
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Transcontinent 1910: The Automotive Adventures of Two Young Men
by Chaplin, Mark H
Rochester, N.Y: Mark H. Chaplin, 2012. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 10x10x1. First edition. An exceptional copy. 2012 Large Hardcover. 115 pp. Photographs, maps, and facsimiles of documents throughout. "Transcontinent 1910 is the story of two MIT students who late in their studies embarked on a transcontinental automobile trip from Boston to Portland. The story told entirely in... Read More
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Emerson and Other Essays
by Chapman, John Jay
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Rear joint has been repaired, spine toned with internal tear, boards a bit soiled. 1898 Hard Cover. 247 pp. Includes: Emerson; Walt Whitman; A Study of Romeo; Michael Angelo's Sonnets; The Fourth Canto of the Inferno; Robert Browning; Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture
by Chapman, Mary; Hendler, Glenn
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 6x0x8. First printing. An excellent copy. 1999 Trade Paperback. ix, 288 pp. "The essays in this volume analyze a wide variety of cultural forms to demonstrate the centrality of masculine sentiment in American literary and cultural history from the early republic to the progressive era. Challenging the... Read More
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Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture
by Chapman, Mary; Hendler, Glenn
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 6x0x8. First printing. An excellent copy. 1999 Trade Paperback. ix, 288 pp. "The essays in this volume analyze a wide variety of cultural forms to demonstrate the centrality of masculine sentiment in American literary and cultural history from the early republic to the progressive era. Challenging the... Read More
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Lectures on the Localisation of Cerebral and Spinal Diseases. Delivered at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris
by Charcot, J.M. [Jean-Martin]; Hadden, Walter Baugh
London / Bartholomew Close: The New Sydenham Society / J.E. Adlard, 1883. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First American edition, and the first English-language translation. Backstrip loose but included with minor loss from ends, small dealer bookplate on rear endpaper. Text clean and unmarked. 1883 Hard Cover. [xxxii], 341 pp. English translation of Garrison-Morton 4558... Read More
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The Slavic Myths
by Charney, Noah; Slapsak, Svetlana
New York: Thames & Hudson, 2023. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 6x1x9. New. First edition. An exceptional copy. 2023 Hard Cover. 239 pp. With 38 illustrations. A Pulitzer-nominated author and one of the great public intellectuals of Slavic culture bring to life the unfamiliar myths and legends of the Slavic world. In the first... Read More
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The Mysterious Past
by Charroux, Robert
New York: Berkley, 1975. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 6x4x0. 1st printing. Spine lightly creased. 1975 Mass Market Paperback. 369 pp. Examines the archeology and mythology of ancient cultures that may point to supernatural events and extraterrestrial contact.
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The Gods Unknown
by Charroux, Robert
New York: Berkley, 1974. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 5x3x0. 1st printing. Spine lightly creased. 1974 Mass Market Paperback. 271 pp. Black-and-white photographs. A secret history of the world featuring chapters on advanced ancient civilization and the possibility of prehistoric extraterrestrial contact.
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The Saint Steps In
by Charteris, Leslie
Garden City, New York: The Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1943. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with chips and tears, jacket flaps formerly taped down. 1943 Hard Cover. 217 pp. With the Second World War underway, the Saint has turned respectable, working for a secret branch of the government... Read More
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Canadian Military Heritage, Volume 2: 1755-1871
by Chartrand, Rene
Quebec: Art Global, 1995. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8x1x11. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed, spine leans forward slightly. Binding tight, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1995 Large Hardcover. 238 pp. Volume 2 of 3. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout, depicting soldiers' uniforms, firearms, etc. Volume 2 in a three-volume work that covers nine centuries of Canada's rich... Read More
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Seed of Liberty: The Story of the American Colonies
by Chatterton, E. Keble
Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9x6x2. First edition. No jacket. Top corner of front board bumped, edges rubbed. 1929 Hard Cover. 356 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white frontispiece and plates. A history of Colonial America.
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