Dear Richard, You wrote 2 excellent pieces regarding 2 books that I don't currently have (which are listed below). Could you please send me some more info on them like Dates, Prices and ISBNs. I would really appreciate it and sorry for the trouble. Thanks Paul U. spenser-pu@juno.com http://www.bayside.net/users/cyberboiled/ 1.RAYMOND CHANDLER'S PHILIP MARLOWE: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION (1988), edited by Byron Preiss Is this a new book? 2. ISBN/PRICE: 0306807734 TP; USD 16.95 R PUB STATUS: Active Record AUTHOR: O'Brien, Geoffrey TITLE: Hardboiled America; Lurid Paperbacks & the Masters of Noir EDITION: EXD IMPRINT: New York : : Da Capo Press, Incorporated, PROJ PUB DT: 9704 PHYS DESC: 216 p. : ill. I wondered if this was a new book or a reprint with a slightly different title of O'Brien's earlier book (which is great, by the way), Hardboiled America: The Lurid Years of Paperbacks. - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca