Al Clark SIGNED Raymond Chandler in Hollywood Bogart Marlowe Detective Movies

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Raymond Chandler in Hollywood by Al Clark, ISBN 0862761107


PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED, DATED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AT THE TOP  OF THE FRONT FREE END PAPER THUS: "To Hemesh, with best regards. Al  Clark March 1983."; 1982 1st UK hardback ed published by Proteus  (Publishing) Limited, 160pp.,  text generally in decent order albeit  with slight browning to pages, some browning & staining to front end  papers & to the following blank page, old erased pencil price just  visible to the top right hand corner of the front free end paper,  hinge showing through between pages 2 & 3 (but still firm), slight browning  to the page extremities at the very top, side & bottom, spine very  slightly cocked & boards very slightly warped, slight bumping &  rubbing to board corners, to top, bottom & sides of boards & to top &  bottom of spine, the dust jacket has some internal yellowing, some  shelf wear including scuffing to top & bottom of spine (bottom has two
minute tears) + corners (slight loss to front bottom right hand  corner), front cover has some scuffing to the right hand edge, both
front & rear have a number of scratches.


Al Clark (born in Corrales, Spain) is an Australian film producer. He  is best known for his producer role on The Adventures of Priscilla,
Queen of the Desert and his executive producer role on the film,  Chopper. Clark is also the author of three books. This book, Raymond  Chandler in Hollywood, provides an insight into the work of the writer  of detective fiction and includes interviews with many of the  Hollywood figures who were associated with Raymond Chandler and his  films. Among them Clark interviewed Lauren Bacall, Alfred Hitchcock,  Fred MacMurray and Robert Montgomery.

Clark first worked as a journalist at Time Out in London before  becoming Publicity Director at Virgin Records. It was here that he
represented the Sex Pistols, Phil Collins, Mike Oldfield and Tangerine  Dream. His working life in London from 1971 – 1987 was dominated by  Tony Elliott, founder, publisher and editor of Time Out magazine UK  and Richard Branson, Founder at Virgin Group. Over his time with  Virgin and during the early years when the company expanded into  different fields, Clark worked as a Publicity Director, a Book Editor  for Virgin Books, Virgin's first Head of Creative Affairs and Head of  Production for Virgin Films. Oscar winner, A Shocking Accident,  starring Rupert Everett and Jenny Seagrove was made in association  with Virgin Films. Clark's first six films produced under the Virgin  umbrella include: Nineteen Eighty-Four directed by Michael Radford and  starring John Hurt and Richard Burton, Absolute Beginners directed by  Julien Temple and starring David Bowie and James Fox and Gothic  directed by Ken Russell and starring Gabriel Byrne, Natasha Richardson  and Timothy Spall.


Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an  American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of 44,  Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an  oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short  story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black  Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was  published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler  published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth, in progress at  the time of his death, was completed by Robert B. Parker). All but  Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In  the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery  Writers of America. Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on  American popular literature. He is a founder of the hard-boiled school  of detective fiction, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and  other Black Mask writers. The protagonist of his novels, Philip  Marlowe, like Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be  synonymous with "private detective". Both were played in films by  Humphrey Bogart, whom many consider to be the quintessential Marlowe.  At least three of Chandler's novels have been regarded as  masterpieces: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Little Sister (1949),  and The Long Goodbye (1953). The Long Goodbye was praised in an  anthology of American crime stories as "arguably the first book since  Hammett's The Glass Key, published more than twenty years earlier, to  qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just  happened to possess elements of mystery". Four of his novels appear on  the British-based Crime Writers Association Poll (1990) of the best  100 crime fiction novels ever published.
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  • Condition: Good
  • Ex Libris: No
  • Narrative Type: Non-Fiction
  • Personalised: Yes
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Topic: Raymond Chandler, Hollywood, Movies
  • Inscribed: Yes
  • Features: Signed Copy, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
  • Original Language: English
  • Signed: Yes
  • Signed By: the author
  • Edition: First Edition
  • ISBN: 9780862761103
  • EAN: 9780862761103
  • Publication Year: 1982
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • Book Title: Raymond Chandler in Hollywood
  • Item Height: 250mm
  • Author: Al Clark
  • Publisher: Proteus Publishing Company
  • Genre: Biographies & True Stories
  • Item Width: 190mm
  • Number of Pages: 128 Pages

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