Lisa Rappaport/Littoral Press:
The Short Goodbye

Author: Raymond Chandler

In a dark alley, Philip Marlowe runs into concrete poetry… Each sentence in this short found book was borrowed from Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye; quotes about coffee, whiskey, guns, lips, eyes, sex, and gimlets have been formatted into thematic typographic shapes. This condensation of the original comments on its language and attitudes. The type is handset Glamour Light, with noirish moments of Shadow.

The text paper is Rives de Lin, printed damp; the boards are covered with metallic black & silver paper; the endpapers are black Hahnemühle Bugra Butten. Sixteen pages; 12”x8”. The frontispiece photograph was shot by the auteur. Speaking of shooting, the front covers were plugged with a 9mm pistol. Eight ink colors; three bullet holes per book. Edition of 53.