Hard-Boiled:

An Anthology of American Crime Stories

 

edited by Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian

 

Oxford University Press, New York. 1995. Hardcover in dust jacket. 532 pages. (6 X 8¾). Pulp and pulp type mystery stories from the 1920s through the 1990s. As usual, Pronzini and Adrian provide a fine collection. Recommended.

 

Oxford University Press, New York. 1997. Trade paperback. 532 pages. (5¼ X 8). Pulp and pulp type mystery stories from the 1920s through the 1990s.

 

(Trade pb cover is the same as the hardcover book.)

 

 

 

Scan and Commentary by Bob Gaines