Bibliographic Description
84.09.W002: Crumley – Dancing Bear
Dancing | Bear | [triple rule 6 cm] | James Crumley | Vintage Contemporaries | VINTAGE BOOKS • A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE • NEW YORK
First Vintage Books Edition, September 1984
120 leaves, pp. [8] 1-2 3-5 6 7-229 [4]
Contents: π1a blurbs and author photo, π1b “ALSO AVAILABLE IN VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES”, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title-page, π3b imprint, π4a dedication “For the Dump Family Singers | — Orris, Nelon, Young Eugene, Ma, | and Little Shorty”, π4b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-228 Dancing Bear, χ1a blank, χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Marc Tauss; interior author photo by Lee Nye.
Copyright: ©1983. ISBN: 394-72576-X. Price: $5.95. Dancing Bear was first published by Random House, 1983.
Copies: JDP 1.1 (presumed)
Blurbs
- (front cover) A taut, stirring, highly original thriller. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
- His friends call him Milo. No one has ever called him Bud except his father, long dead, and now Sarah Weddington, stirring painful memories and offering him his first case since he abandoned his private practice and took a job marking time on the night shift for Haliburton Security. The case seems almost too easy, hardly worth the large fee, just to satisfy this old woman’s curiosity. But things are soon exploding all over the place and Milo is turning up grenades, machine guns, a kilo of marijuana and a bag of coke…and suddenly Milo is on the run.
- Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald have been looking for a successor. Now they have him. – Boston Phoenix
- James Crumley is a first-rate American writer…pyrotechnically entertaining, sexy, compassionate. – The Village Voice
- [Crumley’s] themes are as American and contemporary as they can be, and he explores the American West and its mythology as well as anyone. Dancing Bear is a terrific book, a novel of incomparably degenerate grace and relentless vitality. – St. Louis Dispatch
- Completely unnerving…intelligent, despairing, moving. – The Chicago Sun-Times