9780156577199 - Matter of Crime- Volume 1 (7 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. No discernible flaws to this copy. Features an interview with James Ellroy, as well as an excerpt from his novel The Black Dahlia. Also stories by Loren D. Estleman, Andrew Vachss, and Marcia Muller, among others.

Paperback. Zustand: Good.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. First Edition. San Diego. 1987. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0156577194. 337 pages. paperback. Cover design by Vaughn Andrews. keywords: Mystery Anthology. DESCRIPTION - From the Editors' Note - A MATTER OF CRIME, VOLUME 1 launches a series of original paperbacks comprising the best of contemporary mystery and suspense fiction. A MATTER OF CRIME is a product of its own time. No good writer - or editor - ignores literary tradition; few good writers - or editors are bound by it. While we admire the hardboiled fiction of the past half-century, we resist the inclination to extend past glories into the present. The contemporary writers who command our attention are those who write from the hardboiled tradition, not in imitation of it. Nor are we indifferent to the merits of other schools. Convincing characters and realistic plots; stories about people with believable motivations, confronted by compelling situations: That is the material of A MATTER OF CRIME. We restrict ourselves only to previously unpublished stories (and excerpts from works-in-progress) about crime - whether it be American or foreign, against individuals or against nations. In Dashiell Hammett's 'The Gutting of Couffignal,' the Continental Op describes The Lord of the Sea by M. P. Shiel: 'There were plots and counterplots, kidnappings, murders, prisonbreakings, forgeries and burglaries, diamonds large as hats and floating forts larger than Couffignal. It sounds dizzy here, but in the book it was real as a dime.' The proof is in the reading. We trust you will find these stories as real as a dime. inventory #11278.

First Edition. ADVANCE READING COPY, preceding the First Edition, a paperback original. INSCRIBED by James Ellroy on the first leaf: "To: Carol Zeman / Wooooo / Feel the heat of darkest passions / James Ellroy." Additionally SIGNED by Andrew Vachss on the table of contents. Compiles previously unpublished stories, as well as an excerpt from Ellroy's seventh novel, "The Black Dahlia." Near Fine in wrappers. Signed.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. Matthew J. Bruccoli(Editor) Richard Layman(Editor) (illustrator). First Edition. A Matter of Crime by James Ellroy, et al (ARC) First Edition Signed A Sharp, clean, unread copy. October 1987. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC), precedes the First Edition. Anthology. Previously unpublished stories. Includes an excerpt of the novel The Black Dahlia. Inscribed by James Ellroy on the half-title page to Barry Zeman. Also signed and inscribed by Joyce Harrington; Edgar Winner and fellow Mystery Writers of America board member Joyce Harrington. BOOK.