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The Blue Dahlia: A Screenplay
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The Blue Dahlia: A Screenplay Hardcover - 1976

by Raymond Chandler and John Houseman

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • first

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Blue boards with silver writing on spine; parts of screenplay script super-imposed on front board. Slight ding to top of book spine; very small pieces missing from top of front dust jacket. Top and bottom of back dust jacket have small creases and chips; bottom of dust jacket has tear and pushing that obscure the ISBN. Top of dust jacket spine has very slight shelf wear; cover price of $10.00 on front dust jacket flap. Wrinkling on bottom of front dust jacket flap; book has overall tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition. Southern Illinois University Press First Edition, First Printing as indicated by no other printing or editions listed on copyright page. "Illustrated with lobby posters and movie stills," this is Chandler's previously unpublished screenplay for The Blue Dahlia. Also includes memoir written by John Houseman and an afterword by editor Matthew J. Bruccoli. Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.
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  • Title The Blue Dahlia: A Screenplay
  • Author Raymond Chandler and John Houseman
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 139
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale
  • Date 1976
  • Bookseller's Inventory # CHN003
  • ISBN 9780809307586 / 0809307588
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.88 x 0.75 in (22.86 x 14.94 x 1.91 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 75044121
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.437

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About the author

John Houseman, the producer of The Blue Dahlia, is now head of the Drama Division of the Juilliard School of Music.

Matthew J. Bruccoli, Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, is the author of the recently published The O'Hara Concern, a biog­raphy of John O'Hara.