1st,signed by 5,Halo for Hire:Complete Paul Pine Mysteries,Howard Browne,Haffner

Description: Halo for Hire The Complete Paul Pine Mysteries by Howard Browne Introduction by Richard A Lupoff (signed) Edited by Stephen Haffner (signed) Afterword by Melissa Flagstad (signed) Front Cover by Laurel Blechman (signed) Front Cover Model for Paul Pine Trond Flagstad (signed) Haffner Press First Edition Description: A very thick (just over 900 pages) heavy (book weighs 3 pounds 1 once) hardback book published by the Haffner Press in 2018. The copyright page states 'First Edition'. Haffner Press produces very high quality books with high quality pages sewn for durability and buckram cloth covered boards. Only 1,000 copies (plus 75 copies for a limited edition) of this book were produced. Signed on the title page without inscription or personalization by the editor/publisher, the introduction writer, the daughter of Howard Browne who wrote the afterword, her husband who served as the model of Paul Pine on the front cover, and by the cover artist. These books are hot off the presses. The first appearance of these books was at the LA Paperback books show (3/18/2018), where the contributors all assembled to sign the copies Haffner shipped the Thursday before from the publisher the minute they were ready. Only a small number were shipped, many sold at the show. Unsigned copies can be ordered from Haffner Press. All copies are new and unread, signature placement and formation will vary a little, as all truly signed books will. The publisher's list price for this book is $60, the limited edition (mentioned on the limitation page no other details currently available) will probably run $150 like most of the ones Haffner does. Publisher's Note: At 928 pages, the next release from the Secret Moon Base of Haffner Press is our longest title to date! We want to give all of you who preordered HALO FOR HIRE: THE COMPLETE PAUL PINE MYSTERIES (first announced in 2012) a big THANK YOU for hanging with us while this tome came together. Front Row from left to Right: Laurel Blechman, Richard Lupoff, Trond Flagstad Rear Row: Stephen Haffner, Melissa Flagstad For those keeping score, editorial work began on these tales as far back as 2004. Frank M. Robinson, author of THE POWER and THE GLASS INFERNO (and Howard Browne’s office-boy at the 1940s offices of Amazing Stories) was originally on board to write the introduction, and the magnificent artist Glen Orbik was engaged to provide the cover painting. Sadly, both men passed away before they could contribute; Frank in 2014 and Glen in 2015. But time and tide wait for no one and popular culture historian (and unabashed fan) Richard A. Lupoff stepped up to do the introduction (and it’s fantastic!) for HALO FOR HIRE. An accomplished illustrator herself (your Big Poobah first encountered her work in 1997 for DC Comics), Laurel Blechman agreed to handle the cover art. Laurel and Glen have been a couple for decades and you may view much of their work at their website. Howard Browne’s daughter, Melissa Flagstad, provides an afterword and contributed a heretofore unpublished poem by the author to close out the book. And to help a few of you: that’s NOT Bruce Willis on the cover — Melissa’s husband, Trond Flagstad, lends his visage as the face of Paul Pine. We have striven to pay homage to the design aesthetics of the first editions of the Paul Pine novels. The foil-stamp for the front board of the 1946 hardcover of HALO IN BLOOD is echoed in the omnibus HALO FOR HIRE and the title page for each novel takes inspiration from the Bobbs-Merrill first editions. “Of all of Raymond Chandler’s followers, the most Chandlerish of them all might have been Howard Browne. His private eye hero, PAUL PINE, is simply one of the great eyes, no matter how inspired by (or derivative of ) Chandler’s Philip Marlowe he might have been. All the Pine books are well worth reading, and A Taste of Ashes (1957) in particular is just a flat-out, stone-cold private eye classic. Pine is a former investigator for the Illinois State attorney’s office in Chicago who works as a P.I. in Chicago. He’s got the obligatory cynicism, snappy similes and metaphors down pat, though he tends to be a bit more down to earth than Marlowe, and often mocks his own tendencies to moroseness and world-weariness. And let’s face it — Browne was a stronger plotter than Chandler. In 1985, almost thirty years after Pine’s last appearance, Dennis McMillan published a book The Paper Gun. That volume collected the only previously-published Pine story, “So Dark For April,” plus an incomplete Pine novel that Browne, in the foreword, called “a story complete in itself. But it is not the whole novel.” He states that he had lost interest in the private eye genre, and so the story is only 122 pages in length, too long for a short story, but too short for a novel.’ —adapted from “Paul Pine” by Kevin Burton Smith. HALO FOR HIRE contains all the Paul Pine stories. Table of Contents: • Howard Browne, Paul Pine, and the Halo Novels by Richard A. Lupoff • Halo in Blood • Halo for Satan • Halo in Brass • "So Dark for April" • The Taste of Ashes • The Paper Gun • Afterword by Melissa Flagstad • Acknowledgments Condition: Binding - fine, new, unread. Dust jacket - fine, new, not price clipped, in dust jacket protector. Our Business Policies: Use the Contact Seller link near the top of this listing to see our FAQs, which should answer most questions about our business and listing policies. We have moved the extensive text we used to have here to those FAQs. Shipping and Packing: General Information: We always ship in sturdy new boxes with premium heavy duty packing tape, bubblewrap and filler to keep the item(s) away from the sides of the box. The pictures below show the boxes that we use for shipping. 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Price: 70 USD

Location: Fresno, California

End Time: 2024-02-19T08:02:47.000Z

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