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The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/Very Good
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
VG+ / VG. 1953 Hamish Hamilton, first U.K. Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Nice overall copy. Book has a slight lean + previous owner name on FFEP (small writing). Un-clipped jacket has wear at both spine edges, with a 1/4" chip at top edge - taking the "ray" out of Raymond. Rear jacket cover has a few tears.
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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- Bookseller
- 2nd Impression Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 947
- Title
- The Long Goodbye
- Author
- Raymond Chandler
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First (U.K.)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Date Published
- 1953
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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