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Chandler, Raymond. Backfire: Story for the Screen. Santa Teresa Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1984.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. Soft cover. Stiff wrappers with flaps. Preface by Robert B. Parker. Thin, unpaginated pamphlet. 1st edition. #145 of 200 numbered copies bound in wrappers. Signed by Parker. Fine.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Proof copy so-stamped by the publisher for a limited edition of 326 copies (the entire and only edition) printing this Chandler work for the first time. Fine.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 12mo. Slim unpaginated soft cover bound in green wrappers and housed in a clear mylar jacket. Minimal wear to the binding. Clean within. This is #90 of 200 copies SIGNED by Robert B. Parker on the colophon at the rear.
Seller: Pages Past--Used & Rare Books, Greensboro, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Proof copy so-stamped by the publisher for a limited edition of 326 copies printing this Chandler work for the first time. Fine.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Description: BACKFIRE - A STORY FOR THE SCREEN, Santa Teresa Press, 1984, first edition, fine in wraps. Proof copy.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Backfire: Story for the Screen. Santa Teresa Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1984.
Price: US$62.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 50 pages. First edition, first printing. Preface by Robert B. Parker. One (190) of 200 numbered copies signed by Parker. Fine in book wrappers. a beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$69.95 + shipping
Description: ------------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) --- trade paperback size chapbook, a Fine example, signed by PARKER, # 142 of 200 softcover copies, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 6.25w x 9h Inches
Seller: Leonard Shoup, BURLINGTON, ON, Canada
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FINE condition in FINE green on green original paper wraps with self-fold flaps. SOFTCOVER. 1984. FIRST PRINTING of LIMITED EDITION. This is Number 31 of 200 copies numbered and SIGNED by Robert B. Parker, author of the Preface. AS NEW, fifteen page Chapbook publication of Backfire which was 'originally written by Raymond Chandler as a proposal for a possible original screenplay. It was shopped around Hollywood but never sold.' Stored in Mylar sleeve with acid-free backing.
Seller: SCENE OF THE CRIME ®, SHERMAN OAKS, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st prtg. LIMITED to 200 numbered copies bound in wrappers. This being #151. SIGNED & numbered by Robert B. Parker who wrote intro. Fine in light green wrappers
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: As New Pamphlet - in wraps - Limited # 153 - SIGNED BY PARKER.
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. PROOF COPY: Stamped "PROOF" on front wrapper. Fine in beige wrappers printed in green, black, and stamped in red. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, RAymond. Backfire: Story for the Screen. Santa Teresa Press, Santa Barbara, 1984.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Preface by Robert B. Parker. Thin 8vo, cloth (unpaginated). Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press, 1984 No. 87 of 126 hardbound copies, signed by Parker.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, RAYMOND.. BACKFIRE; STORY FOR THE SCREEN.. Santa Teresa Press, 1984., Santa Barbara, 1984.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Preface written by Parker. Limited to 200 copies signed by the author. This is copy 53. Fine in light green wrappers. Backfire was written as a proposal for a possible original screenplay. It was circulated in Hollywood, but remained unsold. "This is a story about how a man meets and makes friends with his wife's killer, not knowing even yhat she was murdered, nor that his friend knew her."
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First limited edition. SIGNED by Robert B. Parker. #42 pf 200 numbered copies in green printed wrappers with french folded flaps. Story treatment for an unproduced film. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Backfire: Story For the Screen. Santa Teresa Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1984.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 192 pages. First edition, first printing. One (N) 26 hardbound lettered copies. Preface written and signed by Robert B. Parker. This story was a proposal for a unpublished screenplay. A a story about how a man meets and makes friends with his wife's killer, not knowing even that she was murdered, nor that his friend knew her. A fine book with a decorated cover in a fine black cloth slipcase. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Signed/limited edition: #15/100 hardbound cc.signed by Parker. Fine in maroon and black boards with paper label on spine. As issued without d/w. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, illustrated cloth. One of 126 hand bound copies signed by Robert B. Parker. Proposal for an original screenplay which went unsold. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (15254)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$286.21 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 126 (200) copies signed by Robert B. Parker and hand-bound in pictorial cloth at Dragonfly Bindery. This copy not numbered but inscribed "Kathrine Sorley Walker's copy". Fine copy with original acetate and slipcase. "Kathrine Sorley Walker wrote key books on the Royal Ballets founder Ninette de Valois and on Col Wassily de Basils Ballet Russe, and had a perhaps surprising secondary expertise on the novelist Raymond Chandler, whose correspondence she co-edited for publication in the aftermath of a sensational battle between two of his lovers over his estate. On his death in 1959 Chandler left his $60,000 estate to his literary agent and lover Helga Greene (née Guinness, the divorced wife of the BBC director-general Hugh Carleton Greene) in a late codicil to his will. The codicil was challenged in 1960 by his private secretary Jean Fracasse, a rival lover, who accused Mrs Greene of getting the writer drunk and using sex to induce him to alter his intention to favour her instead. A San Diego judge dismissed Fracasses case, amid huge international press coverage. Following the outcome, Helga Greene hired Kathrine Sorley Walker as an editor and commissioned her to work on an edition of Chandlers enormous, extremely colourful correspondence. Though the resulting volume was felt by some to sanitise Chandlers racial and sexual prejudices, Raymond Chandler Speaking (published in 1962, co-edited with the mystery writer Dorothy Gardiner) became a durable research resource for the copious flow of subsequent biographies of the writer. Kathrine Sorley Walker remained an editor at Helga Greenes literary agency for 25 years until Mrs Greenes death, combining the day job with her long-established second line as a dance writer. From the early 1960s she reviewed increasingly for The Daily Telegraph, whose dance critic A?V Coton she succeeded after his death in 1969, writing in tandem with Fernau Hall. After Halls death in 1988, she became the Telegraphs sole resident dance critic until 1993. " (Daily Telegraph obituary.)
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
CHANDLER, RAYMOND. Backfire. Story For The Screen. Santa Barbara, Santa Teresa Press, 1984.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book near fine in acetate jacket. Signed by Robert B. Parker. No slipcase (not all copies were issued with the slipcase). First edition. Limited to 126 copies, of which this is #12. Together with proof copy of the book, in paper, unbound, also signed by Parker.
Seller: Darwin Labordo, Books, Sierra Madre, CA, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, RAYMOND.. BACKFIRE; STORY FOR THE SCREEN.. Santa Teresa Press, 1984., Santa Barbara, 1984.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Preface written and signed by Robert B. Parker. Limited to 126 hard-bound copies signed by Robert B. Parker. This is copy 55. Fine in two-toned decorated cloth. Special elaborate pictorial binding of a man with a gun. Backfire was written as a proposal for a possible original screenplay. It was circulated in Hollywood, but remained unsold. "This is a story about how a man meets and makes friends with his wife's killer, not knowing even that she was murdered, nor that his friend knew her."
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.