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Chandler, Raymond. Five Murderers. New Avon Library, New York, 1944.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Avon #63 Slight wave due to poor storage. 1+" tear at bottom of rear cover. Typical age-darkening paper. Mild creasing near and to spine. Light handling shading on rear cover. NO prior owner markings. Tight, clean, presentable copy.
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Crime - Chandler, Raymond. 5 Murderers. Avon Books, New York, 1944.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pocket paperbound book. First pocket paperbound edition of these five crime stories by Chadler. Published as Avon Books #63. Previously published the same year in an enlarged format by Avon as well. 286 pp. A crisp very good plus copy.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. FIVE MURDERERS. Avon Books, 1944.
Price: US$127.60 + shipping
Description: FIVE MURDERERS, Avon, 1944, first edition, some creasing and soiling to the covers, else just about a vg copy in wraps. A Queen's Quorum title.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, RAYMOND.. Five Murderers. New York: Avon, 1944, 1944.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Original wrappers. Queen's Quorum. A very good copy. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. FIVE [5] MURDERERS. Avon Book Company, New York, 1944.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #19. Digest size format. Collection of mystery stories which first appeared in Black Mask. Contents: Blackmailers Don't Shoot, Goldfish,Guns at Cyrano's, Nevada Gas, and Spanish Blood. Hubin, p. 152. Queen's Quorum 99. Some mild edge rubs, inked word crossed out to rear panel, a bright, nearly fine copy. (23452)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Description: First Printings. Three digest-sized octavos (19.25cm); original pictorial card wrappers; pp.[ii],11-166,[2] ads; [ii],11-168; [iv],11-122,[4] ads. Five Sinister Characters is inscribed by Chandler on the title page, to the wife of Chicago bookseller Arthur Lovell, with whom the author corresponded throughout the 1950s: "To Mrs. Arthur Lovell / with my best wishes / Raymond Chandler / La Jolla, California." Five Murderers is Very Good+, with light wear and some faint creasing to wrappers, a 2cm closed tear to lower front joint, and a closed tear to upper margin of p.135/36; Five Sinister Characters is Near Fine, with light wear to wrapper extremities, and a few rubbed spots to spine ends; The Finger Man shows some trivial wear to extremities, and a small closed tears to margins of a few leaves in text; Near Fine. First book appearances, collectively, of 13 hard-boiled stories and Chandler's essay, "The Simple Art of Murder," which first appeared in the pages of Dime Detective, Black Mask, and The Atlantic Monthly, et al. All of the contributions with exception to "The Bronze Door" would be included in his 1950 collection The Simple Art of Murder. Despite the humble format of these volumes, they contain some of Chandler's sharpest prose, and rank among the best of his short fiction. While we have seen presentation copies of all of Chandler's novels, this is the first time we've encountered an inscribed copy of one of these pulp digests. Bruccoli A5.1, A6.1, A7.1; Hubin, p.74.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.