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Farewell, My Lovely.
by CHANDLER, Raymond
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1940. The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love First edition, first printing, in a lovely example of the striking jacket. Farewell, My Lovely, a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone, was adapted for screen on three occasions, and was the first Philip Marlowe novel to be filmed. In this "ingeniously plotted" story, "Chandler explored his detective's fallibility and vulnerability" (ODNB). Octavo. Original pink cloth, lettering on front board and spine in blue, publisher's device in blue to rear cover, top edge blue. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom pink cloth solander box. Extremities slightly rubbed, faint offsetting to endpapers, couple of tiny marks to rear cover, subsequent spots offset to jacket verso, contents clean. A near-fine copy in very good dust jacket, price-clipped, rubbed at folds, spine panel browned with couple of small damp stains, a couple of nicks to ends, front panel still bright. Bruccoli A2.1.a.
Synopsis
Farewell, My Lovely is a 1940 novel by Raymond Chandler, the second novel he wrote featuring Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe. It was adapted for the screen three times.
Reviews
On Jul 3 2015, a reader said:
Brilliant. About half way through the book I thought 'After this book was written why did anyone bother to write any more crime books at all?'. It's got plot and clues and characters and places. It's got sight, smell, sound and touch, even some change of pace. And most of all it has the most brilliant stream of consciousness. It is written in the first person and in the past tense, but not as if telling what happened from the future - more as a running commentary - the still, small voice in the head slightly detached and describing or explaining the action to himself as it plays out. Terrific. Now got to find a whiskey sour and decide which film of the book to watch while it is fresh in my mind.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 160505
- Title
- Farewell, My Lovely.
- Author
- CHANDLER, Raymond
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
- Date Published
- 1940
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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