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A biography of author Raymond Chandler described by Evelyn Waugh in 1949 as ‘the best writer in America’. Price still on dustjacket. First UK edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. “Born in Nebraska of Irish parents, brought up in Chicago, educated at Dulwich College, and self-taught on those ‘mean streets’ of Los Angeles about which he wrote, Raymond Chandler – writer, accountant, civil servant, oil executive, poet, recluse, charmer, gentleman, drunk – was as full of contradictions as his origins.” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH