[Rarebooks] FS: Lovely First Edition of THE LONG GOODBYE

[Charles Agvent]

 From our annual End of Summer Miscellany Catalogue to be posted on our home 
page tomorrow.  It will contain 140 items, many quite scarce, including 
interesting Autographs, scarce Americana titles, unusual Baseball and other 
Sporting items, and uncommon Modern First Editions, such as this:

CHANDLER,  Raymond.  THE LONG GOODBYE. Boston:  Houghton  Mifflin
Company  1954. First Edition. The First American Edition, preceded  by
the  English  edition in 1953. The sixth volume in the Philip  Marlowe
series  and  Chandler's last book, made into a film by  Robert  Altman
starring  Elliott  Gould as Marlowe and with an uncredited  appearance
as  a  hood  by  Arnold   Schwarzenegger.  One  of  Chandler's  finest
novels--many  believe  it to be a milestone of  detective  fiction--it
jumps  to  life with its very first sentence: "The first time  I  laid
eyes  on  Terry  Lennox he was drunk in a  Rolls-Royce  Silver  Wraith
outside  the  terrace  of The Dancers." Spotting to the  spine  cloth,
apparently  fairly  typical  for this title and not extending  to  the
covers,  in a complete dustwrapper with mild edgewear. Still Near Fine
in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Sharp copy!                       $1250.00

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