Raymond Chandler: A Descriptive Bibliography; Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1979. Cloth hardcover, 146 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, a bit of soiling to the endpapers, no dust jacket. No signature or ownership marks of any kind, but author and General Editor of the series Matthew J. Bruccoli's copy. Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1931-2008) was the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and bibliographer of his time. Additionally, he wrote on, and edited critical editions of Hemingway, Hammett, Cozzens, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and Vladimir Nabokov. He studied bibliography under the tutelage of Fredson Bowers and worked with Jacob Blanck on the Bibliography of American Literature. He was responsible for the republication and rediscovery of dozens of forgotten American novels, and went on to be the editor and publisher of the 400+ volume Dictionary of Literary Biography, and was the chief editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press bibliography series. Near Fine. Item #s0008178
ISBN: 0822933829
Price: $20.00