Edited with an introduction by David Madden.

Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, (1968).

First edition, first printing.

Preface by Harry T. Moore.

A collection of eighteen superb essays by scholars and literary writers on hard boiled and tough guy authors, characters, and writing in the 1930s that discuss a large selection of examples including Ernest Hemingway, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Horace McCoy, Dashiell Hammett, Black Mask writers and styles, gangster novels, Hollywood novels, and much more.

Fine in bright orange linen with gilt embossed insignia to the front cover and with gilt embossed titles and insignia to the spine, upper page edges orange; in an about near fine lightly rubbed dust jacket with a touch of fading to the spine panel and with nicks and very short rubbed tears to the upper and lower spine edges; original printed $6.95 price still intact to the front inner flap.

Octavo; 247 pages; notes; index.

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