I have the books included, but this would be a nice package. I wondered a few years ago when his work wasn't included in some of the Library of America science fiction volumes if something like this might be in the works.
I have quite a few collections, but again several of the "best" (whatever that is) in one volume would be welcome. For anyone who isn't aware of Perelman, he was an American writer of mainly comic and occasionally satiric pieces for venues like
The New Yorker. He also wrote some movie scripts and plays: Perhaps apocryphal, he is reported to have been backstage talking with someone during a performance of one of his plays by the Marx Brothers when he suddenly ran off toward the wings. On returning he remarked, "I thought I heard them use one of my lines." Much of his writing sounds like how one would imagine Groucho Marx to write, though Groucho's own writings rarely sound that way.
I've had a chance to page through this and it's fascinating. Like Chandler before him, Macdonald thought about the mystery/detective story and what it was capable of doing. Like Chandler, he worked at his craft until it gave him a framework to hang his observations of people and society on.
