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The Long Good-Bye
by CHANDLER, Raymond
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First UK Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Duodecimo. 5 x 7.5 in. 319 pp. Good in the original maroon cloth boards with a binding that has a slight lean, and a fair illustrated dust jacket that has heavy reading wear and a large chunk missing from the lower spine. A prior owner's signature appears on the front free endpaper. Otherwise, the pages are clean and free of foxing or other marks.
Synopsis
Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Although he was born in Chicago, Chandler spent most of his boyhood and youth in England where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a freelance journalist for The Westminster Gazette and The Spectator . During World War I, Chandler served in France with the First Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, transferring later to the Royal Flying Corps (R. A. F.). In 1919 he returned to the United States, settling in California, where he eventually became director of a number of independent oil companies. The Depression put an end to his career, and in 1933, at the age of forty-five, he turned to writing fiction, publishing his first stories in Black Mask . Chandler’s detective stories often starred the brash but honorable Philip Marlowe (introduced in 1939 in his first novel, The Big Sleep ) and were noted for their literate presentation and dead-on critical eye. Never a prolific writer, Chandler published only one collection of stories and seven novels in his lifetime. Some of Chandler’s novels, like The Big Sleep , were made into classic movies which helped define the film noir style. In the last year of his life he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died in La Jolla, California on March 26, 1959.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bagatelle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5983
- Title
- The Long Good-Bye
- Author
- CHANDLER, Raymond
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- MARLOWE
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bagatelle Books, IOBA
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Asheville, North Carolina
About Bagatelle Books, IOBA
We are a brick-and-mortar independent bookstore in West Asheville, North Carolina.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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