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Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye – First UK Edition 1953
£800.00
First edition, first printing. Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, in 1953. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust wrapper, illustrated by Fritz Wegner, has some mild creasing to the top and tail edges, with some very mild separation to the spine tips. The spine is slightly sunned and suffers with five minute chips. It has not been price clipped, showing the original 10s. 6d. net price. The boards are fine and without any wear to note. The text blocks are also very clean, though slightly toned as expected. This copy is free from previous owners ink and is, overall, in very good (or better) condition. A stunning copy.
Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He’s willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty…
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First edition, first printing. Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, in 1953. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust wrapper, illustrated by Fritz Wegner, has some mild creasing to the top and tail edges, with some very mild separation to the spine tips. The spine is slightly sunned and suffers with five minute chips. It has not been price clipped, showing the original 10s. 6d. net price. The boards are fine and without any wear to note. The text blocks are also very clean, though slightly toned as expected. This copy is free from previous owners ink and is, overall, in very good (or better) condition. A stunning copy.
Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He’s willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty…
