The Long Goodbye

by Chandler, Raymond

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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The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

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1953
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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.
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1954
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,, 1954 First edition, first printing. Publisher's dark grayish red cloth, stamped in silver to spine; in the original green pictorial dust jacket designed by Fritz Wegner. A near fine copy with light rubbing and wear to the edges; in a very good, moderately worn unclipped dust jacket with a few tiny chips to the spine ends… Read more about this item
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The Long Goodbye: Philip Marlowe

The Long Goodbye: Philip Marlowe

by Raymond Chandler

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1973
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0140014004
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Houghton Mifflin. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First edition, 1954. Flap price $3.00. Book very good, with slight wear at spine ends and bottom corner of front cover, very slightly shelf-cocked, four small stain marks near bottom of front, small stain mark across bottom of back cover, slight discoloration on front free end-paper, traces of erased pencil… Read more about this item
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The Long Goodbye (Original screenplay for the 1973 film)

The Long Goodbye (Original screenplay for the 1973 film)

by Raymond Chandler (novel); Robert Altman (director); Leigh Brackett (screenwriter); Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell (starring)

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Beverly Hills, CA: E-K-Corporation / United Artists, 1971. First Draft script for the 1973 film, written nine months before the production began. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and "Heat" (Michael Mann, 1996). Based on Chandler's 1953 novel, the sixth and penultimate Philip Marlowe… Read more about this item
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The Long Good-Bye

The Long Good-Bye

by CHANDLER, Raymond

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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… Read more about this item
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1953
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, preceding the American. Neat contemporary gift inscription, corners a bit bumped, about very good lacking the dustwrapper. L.A. in the 1950s, with Marlowe at his best.
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Long Good-Bye, The

Long Good-Bye, The

by Chandler, Raymond

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1971
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Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Penguin Books Limited, 1971. Book. Good. Small Paperback. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Small paperback, reprint, 194gms, 319 pages. Book is in good condition with moderate general age-related wear and tear and heavy page discolouration/spotting throughout. Inside front page is becoming loose. Wraps show some moderate creasing and scuffing to corners and edges, otherwise… Read more about this item
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1953
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UK: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. The Long Good-Bye by Raymond Chandler First Edition 2nd Imp Hamish Hamilton December 1953. First published November 1953. A very fine copy. No inscriptions and clean throughout. Covers have no bumping and are completely unmarked. In original VG+ dust jacket that has the same issue points as… Read more about this item
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THE LONG GOOD-BYE.

THE LONG GOOD-BYE.

by CHANDLER, RAYMOND.

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London: Hamish Hamilton, [1953]., 1953. First edition. First edition. Precedes U.S. edition published in 1954. Fine, bright copy in price-clipped dust jacket with light professional restoration at the edges. Edgar award winner for best mystery novel of 1955. H.R.F. Keating lists it as #49 on his 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books. 20th Century Crime and Mystery Writers says,… Read more about this item
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The Long Goodbye

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Good only with rear spine fold split, some spotting on boards with several drink rings on rear board, toned spine, lacking the dust jacket. A *Burgess 99* title.
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1953
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London: Hamish Hamilton. London: Hamish Hamilton, (1953). First edition. This is a very good or better copy. The dust wrapper, illustrated by Fritz Wegner is clean and highly presentable; the corners feature a mild wear, the top and bottom edges are mildly scuffed, and the rear panel is browned in places. It has not been price clipped. The boards are… Read more about this item
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The Long Goodbye

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

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Ballantine Books. 12th printing May 1984. Paperback. Fair. this is a paperback book is not perfect condition however it's classic there are suspended in the front cover crease there's a lot riding on the first page the also focus clean is up writing there are some creases on the back corner increases at the spine the… Read more about this item
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1954
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1954. BCE 1954. Hardcover. G+/no dj. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4. Orange boards w/ blue lettering on spine & upper cover, yellow top edge. Prev owner's bookplate on lower ffep removed leaving faint 2"" square rough paper spot, faint foxing on eps. Otherwise clean, solid, tight, unmarked.
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1953
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First edition. 320 pp. 8vo. Original maroon cloth lettered in silver on spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Fritz Wegner. A few tiny tears to jacket and slight rubbing to spine folds, but a fine, attractive copy, in a custom calf box. First edition. 320 pp. 8vo. A fine copy of the first edition of the… Read more about this item
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The Long Good-Bye

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by Chandler, Raymond

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1/1/1953. Hardcover. 1st UK edition, published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953; no dj; maroon boards with silver lettering on spine; inscription in ink on ffep; endpages lightly foxed; text clean and bright. G
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Hamish Hamilton, 1953. A first edition, first printing published by Hamish Hamilton in 1953. A near fine book with some minute spotting to the page edges - no inscriptions. In a very good unclipped wrapper with a small internal tape repair to the inside. Some chipping to the spine top and to corners and some creasing to the extremities.… Read more about this item
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1954
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Houghton Mifflin, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good first printing, so stated on copyright page and 1954 on title page. A few stray small stains in the book. Both corners of the front flap of the jacket are clipped, and jacket is slightly taller than the book itself.
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The Long Good-Bye

The Long Good-Bye

by Raymond Chandler

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1982
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Random House Publishing Group, 1982. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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THE LONG GOODBYE [RONGU GUDDOBAI] - SIGNED
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THE LONG GOODBYE [RONGU GUDDOBAI] - SIGNED

by Chandler, Raymond (novel); Murakami, Haruki (translation)

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2010
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Tokyo: Hayakawa Books, 2010. First Edition. A key translation by Haruki Murakami of Chandler's sixth novel - the apex of 20th century detective fiction, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1955, and basis for Robert Altman's 1973 film starring Elliott Gould and Sterling Hayden. While Murakami is world-renowned for his fiction and essays, he has enjoyed… Read more about this item
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