Farewell, My Lovely
by Chandler, Raymond
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.
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On Jul 3, 2015, Anonymous 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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Farewell, My Lovely [First Edition Library Facsimile, Fine In Fine Dust Jacket And Slipcase]
by Chandler, Raymond275
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Pasadena, California, USA
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£24.49
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First Edition Library. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 276 Pp. Red Cloth Stamped In Black. A Facsimile Of The First Edition. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket ( Background Color Slightly Faded) And Slipcase. With The Publisher's Explanatory Card Laid In Loosely.
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Farewell, My Lovely (A Philip Marlowe Murder Mystery)
by Chandler, Raymond
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- Used - Good. Prior owner red ink stamp, bookstore. Spine ends have wear. Back cover soiling. Binding intact.
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- 14th printing. 1st Pocket printing 1943. "The Complete Book
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- 1964
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- Mass-market paperback
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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£4.08
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New York.: Pocket Books by arr. w/ Alfred A Knopf., 1964. 14th printing. 1st Pocket printing 1943. "The Complete Book".. Mass-market paperback. Good. Prior owner red ink stamp, bookstore. Spine ends have wear. Back cover soiling. Binding intact.. 1 230 p. Mass-market paperback. Color cover art: Woman in evening gown fires into a man's chest. Doesn't look good… Read more about this item Item Price
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Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
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- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 1940
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Kaufman, Texas, USA
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£306.15
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Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler, Knopf, New York 1940. First edition stated. Top edge navy blue, page edges slightly darkened from age, front bottom right corner bumped, binding tight. Front and back paste downs foxed but interior pages are clean, no underlining, no highlighting or other markings. Previous owner's name on front paste down, very small… Read more about this item Item Price
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Farewell, My Lovely
by Chandler, Raymond
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- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Published
- 1945
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- Hardcover
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Pueblo, Colorado, USA
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£18.78
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Cleveland: World Publishing Company. Good in Good dust jacket. 1945. Hardcover. Second Printing. A stain to the front board. Pages browned and brittle, with scattered tears to the fore-edge pages. The price-clipped dust jacket has shallow chipping to the spine and folds. Bruccoli A 2.4.c ; 203 pages . Item Price
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Farewell, My Lovely.
by CHANDLER, Raymond.
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- Used
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- 1940
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London, GBR
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£4,500.00
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
£4,500.00
Farewell, My Lovely
by CHANDLER, Raymond
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
- Published
- 1940
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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£3,918.72
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Lightly rubbed, near fine in very good dustwrapper with a chip on the front panel, some rubbing and short tears, and a faint, barely visible stain, but which is completely devoid of the restoration, repair, and sophistications usually visited upon copies of this title. The author's… Read more about this item Item Price
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FAREWELL MY LOVELY
by RAYMOND CHANDLER
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- Used
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- 1940
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PASADENA, California, USA
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£1,632.80
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A VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION IN DUST JACKET. PRICE ON DJ. Item Price
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Farewell, My Lovely
by CHANDLER, Raymond
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1940
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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£1,428.70
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Tiny snagged tear to cloth at lower edge of front cover, two leaves have small spot of early browning, else a near fine, bright, and fresh copy without dust jacket. Author, and diplomat, William C. Bullitt's copy, with his contemporary engraved bookplate on front pastedown. Bullitt served… Read more about this item Item Price
£1,428.70
Farewell, My Lovely
by Chandler, Raymond
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint; Twelfth Printing
- Published
- 1975
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780140007015
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Blagoevgrad Region, BGR
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£5.01
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Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. Very Good. 1975. Reprint; Twelfth Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Light shelf wear, paper starting to tone, previous owner details to inside front cover. ; Twelfth printing of Penguin mass market edition, 1975. Nice tight copy. Movie tie-in edition with cover montage design by Michaelc Farrell of photographs from the film… Read more about this item Item Price
£5.01
Farewell, My Lovely
by Chandler, Raymond
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- Used - Very Fine
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- Very Fine
- Edition
- Facsimile Edition
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- Hardcover
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Manasquan, New Jersey, USA
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£61.23
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Shelton, CT: First Edition Library. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo., 275pp. Beautiful Unread First Printing of this Facsimile Edition reprinting the 1940 original. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright with no creases, chipping, toning or tears. Fine publisher's slipcase.FEL information card laid in.… Read more about this item Item Price
£61.23
Farewell, My Lovely
by Chandler, Raymond
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Published
- 1992
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- Softcover
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Los Angeles, California, USA
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£8.16
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New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. Near Fine. 1992. Later Printing. Softcover. [minor handling wear, very slight bumping to lower corners of both covers, light age-toning to edges of text block]. Trade PB The second Philip Marlowe, the basis for one really good movie (MURDER, MY SWEET, 1944, with Dick Powell as Marlowe), one pretty good one… Read more about this item Item Price
£8.16
Farewell, My Lovely
by CHANDLER, Raymond
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- Used - Fine
- Published
- 1940
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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£1,632.80
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Slightest bit cocked, still a lovely, fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. The author's second book, basis for the 1944 film *Murder, My Sweet* directed by Edward Dmytryk, with Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe. Remade in 1975 by Dick Richards with Robert Mitchum. Item Price
£1,632.80
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Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
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- Like New
- Published
- 1968
- ISBN
- 9780394721385
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- 1
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Albany, Oregon, USA
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£2.04
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Used paperback book with no creasing along the spine and only slight rubbing on front cover (as shown in picture). No writing, notes, or highlighting interferes with the text. The binding is excellent and the text is perfectly readable.
Standard shipping is via USPS Media Mail. It is a tad slower sometimes, but it is far less expensive. Expedited shipping will… Read more about this item Item Price
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FAREWELL, MY LOVELY
by Chandler, Raymond
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- Used - Fine in near-fine jacket.
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- First edition
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- 1940
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Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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£5,714.80
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition. Fine in near-fine jacket.. First printing of the second novel by the master of the hard-boiled, a worthy follow-up to THE BIG SLEEP (1939). Detective Philip Marlowe investigates the murder of a Black nightclub owner in this gritty tale of stoic despair set in Los Angeles. Published one year after… Read more about this item Item Price
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Farewell, My Lovely [First Edition Library Facsimile, Fine In Fine Dust Jacket And Slipcase]
by Chandler, Raymond275
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- Hardcover
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Pasadena, California, USA
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£24.49
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First Edition Library. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 276 Pp. Red Cloth Stamped In Black. A Facsimile Of The First Edition. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket ( Background Color Slightly Faded, Tiny Tear At Bottom Of Spine Panel) And Slipcase. With The Publisher's Explanatory Card Laid In Loosely.
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£24.49
Farewell, My Lovely
by Chandler, Raymond
- Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Published
- 1940
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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£1,632.80
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E-179: Alfred A Knopf. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1940. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1940. 275 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (lightly soil & chipping present to the spine ends, foxing present from tape repairs present to the reverse of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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FAREWELL, MY LOVELY
by CHANDLER, Raymond
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine Original Wraps
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 1976
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780394721385
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- 1
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Sherman Oaks, California, USA
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£16.33
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NY: Vintage, 1976. NEAR FINE condition in FINE original pictorial paper wraps. SOFTCOVER. V-138. FIRST Vintage Books Edition September 1976. AS NEW, square and tight, UNREAD, NO creasing. Age toning to pages and inside covers. Featuring Philip Marlowe. Stored in Archival sleeve.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Near Fine/Fine Original Wraps. Item Price
£16.33
Farewell, My Lovely (featuring Philip Marlowe)
by Chandler, Raymond
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- Used - Acceptable
- Published
- 1949
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780140007015
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- 1
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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£6.53
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Penguin, 1949. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
£6.53
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Farewell My Lovely
by Chandler, Raymond
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1940
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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£530.66
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition stated, First Printing. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth stamped in blue; lacking a dust jacket. Very Good, with light lean to spine; cloth scuffed and lightly soiled, worn at extremities. Inner front hinge repaired, pages toned. A nice copy. Item Price
£530.66
Farewell, My Lovely
by Chandler, Raymond
- Condition
- As New
- Published
- 1992
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780394758275
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- 1
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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£4.99
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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1992. Paperback. As New. Disclaimer:An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact; pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
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