[Rarebooks] FS: THE HARD-BOILED DICK... Anthony Boucher's copy.

[Michael John Thompson]

Offering:

SANDOE, James. [BOUCHER, Anthony - Association 
Copy]. THE HARD-BOILED DICK: A Personal 
Check-List. By James Sandoe. Chicago: Arthur 
Lovell 1952 First Edition, First Printing. 
Original printed wrappers stapled at spine, a 
pamphlet. 8 + [2] pp. Previously, Anthony 
Boucher's copy, with his ownership stamp "Anthony 
Boucher, 2643 Dana Street, Berkeley 4, 
California" A little age-toning, mild cover creases, a very nice copy.

¶ A personal, selective checklist of the very 
best Hard-Boiled Detective novels, chosen by 
Sandoe and with his reviews and annotations. 
Sandoe was a mystery reviewer for The Chicago 
Sun-Times and the New York Herald Tribune; he 
knows his stuff and the checklist is quite 
useful, even today. Anthony Boucher (William 
Anthony Parker White; 1911-1968) was (among a 
great many other things!) the mystery fiction 
book reviewer for the San Francsico Chronicle; he 
wrote detective fiction under the Boucher 
psuedonym (as well as the H.H. Holmes by-line ) 
and is perhaps best remembered for being the 
co-founding editor of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND 
SCIENCE FICTION in 1949. The annual world Mystery 
Convention - The  Bouchercon - bears his name. 
The checklist at hand prints Boucher's full-page 
evaluation of Dashiel Hammett from the New York 
Times of August 10, 1952, reprinted here with his 
permission. A remarkable association copy.

$250.00Cdn postpaid in North America (it's a pamphlet).

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