Chandler's Complete Novels (1989)
[Acquired: Thursday, November 1, 2012]:Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep. 1939. Introduction by Frank MacShane. The Complete Novels, 1. London: The Folio Society, 1989.
Chandler, Raymond. Farewell My Lovely. 1939. The Complete Novels, 2. London: The Folio Society, 1989.
Chandler, Raymond. The High Window. 1943. The Complete Novels, 3. London: The Folio Society, 1989.
Chandler, Raymond. The Lady in the Lake. 1944. The Complete Novels, 4. London: The Folio Society, 1989.
Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. 1949. The Complete Novels, 5. London: The Folio Society, 1989.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. 1953. The Complete Novels, 6. London: The Folio Society, 1989.
Chandler, Raymond. Playback. 1958. The Complete Novels, 6. London: The Folio Society, 1989.
The Unicorn Bookshop in Warkworth has a long shelf of Folio Society editions of various classic books, and this one caught my eye when I was in there with David Howard a few weeks ago. This time I couldn't resist it. I love Chandler's stylised and mannered prose, and admire - above all - his ability to constantly reinvent himself.
There's no mention of an illustrator for the various prints and embellishments in this set, which seems a bit careless. It's certainly very styly, though. I see that there's an accompanying volume of short stories, but I already have those in other forms.
And here's a link to a fascinating list of all the Folio Society series (i.e.: sets of five books or more) to date.
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Novels:
- The Big Sleep [Based on "Killer in the Rain" (1935) & "The Curtain" (1936)] (1939)
- The Big Sleep. 1939. Introduction by Frank MacShane. The Complete Novels, 1. London: The Folio Society, 1989.
- Farewell, My Lovely [Based on "The Man Who Liked Dogs" (1936), "Try The Girl" (1937) & "Mandarin's Jade" (1937)] (1940)
- Farewell My Lovely. 1939. The Complete Novels, 2. London: The Folio Society, 1989.
- The High Window (1942)
- The High Window. 1943. The Complete Novels, 3. London: The Folio Society, 1989.
- The Lady in the Lake [Based on "Bay City Blues" (1938), "The Lady In The Lake" (1939), "No Crime In The Mountains" (1941)] (1943)
- The Lady in the Lake. 1944. The Complete Novels, 4. London: The Folio Society, 1989.
- The Little Sister [Scenes based on "Bay City Blues" (1938)] (1949)
- The Little Sister. 1949. The Complete Novels, 5. London: The Folio Society, 1989.
- The Long Good-bye [Scenes based on "The Curtain" (1936)] (1953)
- The Long Goodbye. 1953. The Complete Novels, 6. London: The Folio Society, 1989.
- Playback [Based on an unproduced screenplay] (1958)
- Playback. 1958. The Complete Novels, 7. London: The Folio Society, 1989.
- [with Robert B. Parker] Poodle Springs (1959 & 1989)
- [with Robert B. Parker] Poodle Springs. 1959 & 1989. A Macdonald Book. London: Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1990.
- Five Murderers (1944)
- Goldfish
- Spanish Blood
- Blackmailers Don't Shoot
- Guns at Cyrano's
- Nevada Gas
- Five Sinister Characters (1945)
- Trouble is My Business
- Pearls Are a Nuisance
- I'll Be Waiting
- The King in Yellow
- Red Wind
- Red Wind (1946)
- Red Wind
- Blackmailers Don't Shoot
- I'll Be Waiting
- Goldfish
- Guns at Cyrano's
- Spanish Blood (1946)
- Spanish Blood
- The King in Yellow
- Pearls Are a Nuisance
- Nevada Gas
- Trouble is My Business
- Finger Man, and Other Stories (1947)
- Finger Man
- The Bronze Door
- Smart-Aleck Kill
- The Simple Art of Murder
- The Simple Art of Murder (1950) [SAM]
- Finger Man
- Smart-Aleck Kill
- Guns at Cyrano's
- Pick-up on Noon Street
- Goldfish
- The King in Yellow
- Pearls Are a Nuisance
- I'll Be Waiting
- Red Wind
- Nevada Gas
- Spanish Blood
- Trouble is My Business
- The Simple Art of Murder: An Essay
- The Simple Art of Murder. 1950. Vintage Books. New York: Random House, 1988.
- Trouble Is My Business (1950) [TB]
- Trouble Is My Business
- Red Wind
- I'll Be Waiting
- Goldfish
- Guns at Cyrano's
- Trouble is My Business and Other Stories. 1950. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.
- Pick-up on Noon Street (1952)
- Pick-up on Noon Street
- Smart-Aleck Kill
- Guns at Cyrano's
- Nevada Gas
- Smart-Aleck Kill (1953) [SAK]
- Smart-Aleck Kill
- Pick-up on Noon Street
- Nevada Gas
- Spanish Blood
- Included in: The Chandler Collection, Volume 3: Pearls are a Nuisance / Smart-Aleck Kill / Killer in the Rain. 1958, 1953, 1964. Picador. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1984.
- Pearls Are a Nuisance (1958) [PN]
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Introduction
- Pearls Are a Nuisance
- Finger Man
- The King in Yellow
- The Simple Art of Murder: An Essay
- Included in: The Chandler Collection, Volume 3: Pearls are a Nuisance / Smart-Aleck Kill / Killer in the Rain. 1958, 1953, 1964. Picador. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1984.
- Killer in the Rain (1964) [KR]
- Killer in the Rain
- The Man Who Liked Dogs
- The Curtain
- Try the Girl
- Mandarin's Jade
- Bay City Blues
- The Lady in the Lake
- No Crime in the Mountains
- Included in: The Chandler Collection, Volume 3: Pearls are a Nuisance / Smart-Aleck Kill / Killer in the Rain. 1958, 1953, 1964. Picador. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1984.
- The Smell of Fear (1965) [SoF]
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Introduction
- Blackmailers Don't Shoot
- Pearls Are a Nuisance
- Finger Man
- The King in Yellow
- Smart-Aleck Kill
- Pick-up on Noon Street
- Nevada Gas
- Spanish Blood
- Trouble is My Business
- Red Wind
- I'll Be Waiting
- Goldfish
- Guns at Cyrano's
- The Pencil
- The Smell of Fear. 1965. London: Book Club Associates / Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1983.
- Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels. Ed. Frank MacShane. Library of America, 79 (1995) [LoA1]
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Pulp Stories:
- Blackmailers Don’t Shoot
- Smart-Aleck Kill
- Finger Man
- Nevada Gas
- Spanish Blood
- Guns at Cyrano’s
- Pick-Up on Noon Street
- Goldfish
- Red Wind
- The King in Yellow
- Pearls Are a Nuisance
- Trouble Is My Business
- I’ll Be Waiting
- Collected Stories (2002) [CS]
- Blackmailers Don't Shoot
- Smart-Aleck Kill
- Finger Man
- Killer in the Rain
- Nevada Gas
- Spanish Blood
- Guns at Cyrano's
- The Man Who Liked Dogs
- Pickup on Noon Street
- Goldfish
- The Curtain
- Try the Girl
- Mandarin's Jade
- Red Wind
- The King in Yellow
- Bay City Blues
- The Lady in the Lake
- Pearls are a Nuisance
- Trouble is My Business
- I'll Be Waiting
- The Bronze Door
- No Crime in the Mountains
- Professor Bingo's Snuff
- The Pencil
- English Summer
- Collected Stories. Introduction by John Bayley. Everyman's Library, 257. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
- Blackmailers Don't Shoot (December 1933) [SoF] [LoA1] [CS]
- Smart-Aleck Kill (July 1934) [SAM] [SAK] [SoF] [LoA1] [CS]
- Finger Man (October 1934) [SAM] [PN] [SoF] [LoA1] [CS]
- Killer in the Rain (January 1935) [KR] [CS]
- Nevada Gas (June 1935) [SAM] [SAK] [SoF] [LoA1] [CS]
- Spanish Blood (November 1935) [SAM] [SAK] [SoF] [LoA1] [CS]
- Guns at Cyrano's (July 1936) [SAM] [TB] [SoF] [LoA1] [CS]
- The Man Who Liked Dogs (March 1936) [KR] [CS]
- Pickup on Noon Street [aka "Noon Street Nemesis"] (May 30, 1936) [SAM] [SAK] [SoF][LoA1] [CS]
- Goldfish (June 1936) [SAM] [TB] [SoF] [LoA1] [CS]
- The Curtain (September 1936) [KR] [CS]
- Try the Girl (January 1937) [KR] [CS]
- Mandarin's Jade (November 1937) [KR] [CS]
- Red Wind (January 1938) [SAM] [TB] [SoF] [LoA1] [CS]
- The King in Yellow (March 1938) [SAM] [PN] [SoF] [LoA1] [CS]
- Bay City Blues (June 1938) [KR] [CS]
- The Lady in the Lake (January 1939) [KR] [CS]
- Pearls are a Nuisance (April 1939) [SAM] [PN] [SoF] [LoA1] [CS]
- Trouble is My Business (August 1939) [SAM] [TB] [SoF] [LoA1] [CS]
- I'll Be Waiting (October 14, 1939) [SAM] [TB] [SoF] [LoA1] [CS]
- The Bronze Door (November 1939) [CS]
- No Crime in the Mountains (September 1941) [KR] [CS]
- The Little Sister [Prepublication abridgement] (April 1949)
- Professor Bingo's Snuff (June-July, 1951) [CS]
- Playback [Serialisation] (October-November 1958)
- The Pencil [aka "Marlowe Takes on the Syndicate", "Wrong Pigeon" & "Philip Marlowe's Last Case"] (April, 1959) [SoF] [CS]
- English Summer (August 1976) [ES] [CS]
- Raymond Chandler on Writing [Pamphlet with material from Raymond Chandler Speaking] (1962)
- Raymond Chandler Speaking. Ed. Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker (1962)
- Raymond Chandler Speaking. Ed. Dorothy Gardiner & Kathrine Sorley Walker. 1962. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977.
- Chandler before Marlowe: Raymond Chandler's Early Prose and Poetry, 1908–1912. Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli (1973)
- The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler, and "English Summer: A Gothic Romance". Ed. Frank MacShane (1976) [ES]
- The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler & English Summer: A Gothic Romance. Ed. Frank MacShane. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. 1976. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977.
- Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration [23 stories by various writers; also Chandler's "The Pencil"] (1990)
- Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings. Ed. Frank MacShane. Library of America, 80 (1995) [LoA2]
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Selected Essays:
- The Simple Art of Murder
- Writers in Hollywood
- Twelve Notes on the Mystery Story
- Notes on English and American Style
- Introduction to The Simple Art of Murder
- The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Non-Fiction, 1909–1959. Ed. Tom Hiney and Frank MacShane (2000) [RCP]
- The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Non-Fiction, 1909-1959. Ed. Tom Hiney & Frank MacShane. 2000. London: Penguin, 2001.
- [with music by Julian Pascal] The Princess and the Pedlar [comic operetta libretto] 1917 (2014)
- Review of The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol (March 18, 1911)
- The Remarkable Hero (September 9, 1911) [RCP]
- The Literary Fop (November 4, 1911)
- Review of The Reason Why by Elinor Glyn (December 23, 1911)
- Realism and Fairyland (January 6, 1912) [RCP]
- The Tropical Romance (January 20, 1912)
- Houses to Let (February 24, 1912)
- The Art of Loving and Dying: Review of The Drama of Love and Death by Edward Carpenter (June 22, 1912)
- The Rural Labourer at Home: Review of Change in the Village by George Bourne (June 22, 1912)
- The Phrasemaker (June 29, 1912)
- Letter: About the Article on Floral Arrangement (June 15, 1937)
- A Second Letter from R C Esq (July 1, 1937)
- The Simple Art of Murder (December 1944) [SAM] [PN] [LoA2]
- Writers in Hollywood (November 1945) [LoA2]
- The Hollywood Bowl: Review of The Golden Egg by James Pollock (January 1947)
- Letter: 'Pros' and Cons (May 1947)
- Critical Notes (July 1947)
- Oscar Night in Hollywood (March 1948)
- Studies in Extinction: Review of Murders Plain and Fanciful by James Sandoe (April 1948)
- 10 Greatest Crimes of the Century (October 1948)
- Introduction to The Simple Art of Murder (April 15, 1950) [PN] [SoF] [LoA2]
- Letter (May 1951)
- Ten Per Cent of Your Life (February 1952)
- Autobiographical note (July 1952)
- Letter: Ruth Ellis — Should She Hang (June 30, 1955)
- A Letter From London (September 1955)
- Bonded Goods: Review of Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming (March 25, 1956)
- Guest Column: Crosstown with Neil Morgan (March 1, 1957)
- Raymond Chandler Writes a Blunt Letter to the Daily Express (June 18, 1957)
- A Star Writer's Advice to Writers (and Editors) (June 18, 1957)
- Guest Column: Crosstown with Neil Morgan (July 12, 1957)
- Guest Column: Crosstown with Neil Morgan (March 8, 1958)
- The Terrible Dr No: Review of Dr. No by Ian Fleming (March 30, 1958)
- Detective Story as an Art Form (March 1959)
- Guest Column: Crosstown with Neil Morgan (August 25, 1959)
- Ian Fleming; Raymond Chandler [includes letters from Chandler] (December 1959)
- Private Eye [Prepublication excerpts from Raymond Chandler Speaking] (February 25, 1962)
- Farewell, My Hollywood [aka "A Qualified Farewell"] (June 1976) [ES]
- [With Billy Wilder] Double Indemnity [based on the novella by James M. Cain] (1944) [LoA2]
- [With Frank Partos] And Now Tomorrow [based on the novel by Rachel Field] (1944)
- [With Hagar Wilde] The Unseen [based on the novel by Ethel Lina White] (1945)
- The Innocent Mrs. Duff [unproduced; based on The Innocent Mrs. Duff (1946)
- The Blue Dahlia (1946)
- The Blue Dahlia, dir. George Marshall, writ. Raymond Chandler – with Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix – (USA, 1946) [DVD]
- Playback [unproduced] (1947–48)
- [With Czenzi Ormonde] Strangers on a Train [based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith] (1951)
- The Unknown Love (December 19, 1908)
- The Poet's Knowledge (March 3, 1909)
- The Soul's Defiance (March 5, 1909)
- The Wheel (March 25, 1909)
- Art (April 16, 1909)
- A Woman's Way (April 22, 1909) [RCP]
- The Quest (June 2, 1909)
- When I was King (June 9, 1909)
- The Hour of Chaos (June 18, 1909)
- The Bed of Roses (June 29, 1909)
- The Reformer (July 29, 1909)
- The Perfect Knight (September 30, 1909)
- The Pilgrim in Mediation (November 8, 1909)
- The Pioneer (November 17, 1909)
- The Hermit (February 28, 1910)
- The Dancer (May 14, 1910)
- The Death of the King (July 16, 1910)
- The Clay God (January 4, 1911)
- The Unseen Planets (April 21, 1911)
- The Tears That Sweeten Woe (May 1, 1911)
- The Fairy King (May 3, 1911)
- Untitled (June 16, 1911)
- The Genteel Artist (August 19, 1911)
- An Old House (November 15, 1911)
- The King (March 1, 1912)
- Time Shall Not Die (April 25, 1912)
- Raymond Chandler and James M. Fox: Letters (1979)
- Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler. Ed. Frank MacShane (1981)
- Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler. Ed. Frank MacShane. 1981. Papermac. London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1983.
- Gross, Miriam, ed. The World of Raymond Chandler. Introduction by Patricia Highsmith. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977.
- MacShane, Frank. The Life of Raymond Chandler. 1976. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.
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