Vintage Raymond Chandler

And thoughts on old book covers

After years of rummaging through stoop giveaway boxes and inhaling an ungodly amount of dust in used bookshops, my quest to own every single volume in the original Vintage Contemporaries series of books is nearly complete. I got to go in on my personal obsession with those covers a few years back, and last week, Dan Kois got to do the same at The New Yo…