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Raymond Chandler. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1954.
Price: US$12.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1954, Early U.S. Book Club edition of a Chandler Classic - rust boards; light wear at extremities; stamped 'discard ssrl' on front paste-down and the number '10' on the ffep in ink - no other indication this was or wasn't a library book - 4 tiny dog ears next to other - no doubt a ding at some point, otherwise a tight, clean copy.
Seller: Anthony Clark, Wolfville, NS, Canada
CHANDLER, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin Co, 1954.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: BCE. 256pp, smaller octavo hardcover. mild wear to book edges and spine, boards clean, solid binding, missing ffep, text clean.
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954.
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover, no dustjacket, "First published in the United States, 1954" on copyright page but no date on title page and brown cover, edge-wear to the spine-ends and corners, tanning to the blank end-papers, binding is tight, contents are fine; 256 pages
Seller: Mainly Books, Silverdale, PA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: pp. 256. 8vo. Bound in rust cloth with blue lettering to spine. General shelfwear, lacks dustjacket, ink inscription to ffep; very good.
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Chandler, Raymond. Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954.
Price: US$29.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Orange cloth, book club, no dust jacket. Book has some mild discoloration at very edges of front cover, light to modest bumping to top corners and top/bottom of spine. otherwise book is very nice, clean and bright, with a tight binding and clean pages.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Raymond Chandler. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin, 1954.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: (Ref.KK3) Tan coloured cloth boards with blue titles. Very good and clean condition. No DJ. Previous owner's small label to top of ffep. Yellowed endpapers. Foredge slightly yellowed. Top edge a little dusty otherwise excellent.
Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom
CHANDLER, RAYMOND. The Long Goodbye. Boston Houghton Mifflin 1954, 1954.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Early Vintage Book Club Edition. Lightly handled copy with some edge wear, fading, and rubbing to the cloth without dust jacket.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1954.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Bruccoli, A.10.2.b. Small ink mark on ffep, some rubbing to bottom edge, pressed spine tips, else near fine. Full cloth, half blue half green. Top edge stained green. No dust jacket
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Raymond Chandler. The Long Goodbye. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1954.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book Club EDITION, stated first, 1954. Near fine hardcover -- minimal rub. No marks or names inside. Very good DUST JACKET, bright, with light wear to extremities.
Seller: Brused Books, Pullman, WA, U.S.A.
Raymond Chandler. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1954.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A BCE of one of Chandler's classics. Red boards with blue lettering. Light edge wear to the DJ with small loss at the head of the spine. A very good copy.
Seller: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. U.S.A / Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1954.
Price: US$64.13 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This is an 'American Book Club' edition. / The authors sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe. The novel opens outside a club in Los Angeles called the Dancers. It is late October or early November: no year is given but internal evidence and the publication date of the novel places it between 1950 and 1952. Philip Marlowe meets a drunk named Terry Lennox, a man with scars on one side of his face. They forge an uneasy friendship over the next few months. /// This is a reprinted hardback in good condition-there is a dustjacket which is in poor condition, it has pieces missing from it & it is faded & creased. There is a small book plate in the front end-paper. The book its self is good, clean copy. (256 pages). Originally published 1953. Walter H. Lorraine (illustrator).
Seller: Bookenastics, Liverpool, United Kingdom
CHANDLER, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1954.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No d-j. Light wear to front of boards. Top edge darkened. Light wear to headcap and tail. Black ink on pastedowns and FFEP. Edges tanned. Spine cocked.
Seller: Encanto Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$182.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First US Edition, First Printing, preceded by UK edition. Hard cover 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall in blue and green cloth w/black titles. Very Good book in like unclipped edgeworn DJ w/several tears/creases, chipped at spine tips and corners, now in clear protective cover. Book shows light slant, color loss front board, owner name front pastedown; binding firm, interior clean and unmarked. A Philip Marlowe novel which some, including the Author, consider to be Chandler's best work. 316pp.
Seller: BASEMENT BOOKS, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1954.
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Book Condition: Good+. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA 1954. First Edition. 1st Printing. 316 pages. Blue and Green cloth, black lettering. Moderate general wear. Spine sunned to grey. Top of spine frayed. Previous owner name on endpaper. Text pages clean and unmarked. Size: 8.8 x 5.3 x 1.3. Fiction Modern::Crime/Mystery/Suspense 6037
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1954.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1954. VERY GOOD hardcover book in GOOD only mylar-protected dust-jacket. DJ has closed tears and chipping at its extremities. Bottom of boards rubbed. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped ($3.00). First US Edition, First Printing.
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. THE LONG GOODBYE. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$219.54 + shipping
Description: Good in boards. Ex-Library with the usual markings. Hinge has started. Tape to gutters. Spine is cocked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, RAYMOND. The Long Goodbye. Boston Houghton Mifflin 1954, 1954.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition - American. Very good slightly handled copy with a trace of edge wear and a bit of rubbing to the cloth at the spine in an excellent facsimile dust jacket.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin, 1954.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book Club Edition, 1954. Book has very faint wear/curling to cover corners. Slight staining inside front/back covers. Faint foxing to outside page block. Otherwise, pages are clean and crisp. Binding is strong and boards are sturdy. Dust jacket has light wear to corners and slight wear along top/bottom edges. 0.5 inch rip to top of spine; 1 inch rip to bottom of back flap. A handful of faint length-long creases to sides of spine and back cover. Light foxing inside jacket, as well as to back bottom cover. Otherwise, jacket is intact. No other major wear or markings. All text and imagery bold and bright. Now in protective mylar cover. Photos upon request.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. THE LONG GOODBYE (first printing). Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston. 1954. 316 pages. First edition, first printing stated with First Published in the United States, 1954. No further printings listed and 1954 date is on BOTH the copyright page AND the title page. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Endpapers are clean. Faint shadow in gutter at base of endpapers; not on any other pages. Two-tone blue and green cloth panels with title stamped in green. Green topstain unmarred. Slight dakening to backstrip. A couple of thin faint scuffs to cloth on rear panel. Base of backstrip has an old roman numeral/number in ink with a small cloud around it.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$265.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Light blue and green boards are bumped at edges and have spotting along spine which is lightly cocked. First published in 1954 stated on copyright page with 1954 shown on title page. Light blue top stain and page edges clean. Textblock well thumbed but no markings or creasing. Hinges good. Price intact jacket has several chips along front fold and some creasing. Jacket at front fold separated. Relatively shallow chipping at spine ends with chip at head extending slightly into front panel. None of the lettering on jacket is affected by the various chips. Small triangular chip on rear panel bottom with moderate to heavy creasing along edges. Chandler's last novel but a good one. In Brodart to protect jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, RAYMOND.. The Long Goodbye. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1954, 1954.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Ownership signature; a very good plus copy in a good to very good price-clipped dust jacket with chips and tears. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond.. The Long Goodbye.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 316 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First American edition. Some spotting to cloth and tape marks to endpapers; else a very good copy in a jacket with some rubbing to joints and some light use to the edges. A tear at the upper right corner of the front panel has been repaired with a piece of tape on the outside. All in all, presentable example.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin, 1954.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond.. The Long Goodbye.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 316 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First American edition. Better than very good; in a bright jacket with a 1 x 1/2 inch chip to the bottom of the front panel, which affects the "A" and "N" of "Chandler." There is a slightly smaller chip at the top of the back panel which does not affect any lettering, and some light chipping to the extremities of the spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 316pp. Original blue and green cloth lettered in dark green. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket unclipped ($3.00) Really nice copy. The Philip Marlowe mystery that formed the basis of the 1973 Altman film starring Elliott Gould.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbuy. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: DJ in archival cover ware several chips and tiny tears. $3.00 price on the front flap. Stated first printed in the United States, 1954.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond.. The LONG GOODBYE.. Houghton, Mifflin and Company., Boston, 1954.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Near fine in blue and green cloth in a fine supplied facsimile dust jacket. Despite lacking the original Jacket, an attractively solid copy of this Edgar award winning high spot. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond.. The Long Goodbye.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: 316 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First American edition. There is some light sunning to the spine and a little rubbing and use at its extremities and the corners; tight and sound in a jacket with expert repairs in facsimile to chips at the extremities of the spine (approx. 1/2" at the top and 1/4" at the bottom). The rear panel is lightly dust-soiled.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin, 1954.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 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 marks and traces of glue and paper from removed bookplate on rear free end-paper. DJ very good, with some wear and rubbing on spine and front, two small holes near middle vertical edge of front, two marks from removed tape on both flaps, small tear near top of back flap (1/2").
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: A very good plus copy bound in finely woven blue and green cloth stamped in green. A very clean, tight copy with a previous owner's name written in ink at the top of the front flyleaf. With light green topstaining. In the striking dust jacket by Walter H. Lorraine with the original price of $3.00 at the top of the inside front flap. Several small chips and pieces are missing from the corners and at the top and bottom of the spine ends. The verso has been reinforced with strips of Scotch tape along the top and bottom edges. Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature, and is considered by many to be a founder, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers, of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. His protagonist, Philip Marlowe, along with Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective," both having been played on screen by Humphrey Bogart, whom many considered to be the quintessential Marlowe.Some of Chandler's novels are considered to be important literary works, and three are often considered to be masterpieces: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Little Sister (1949), and The Long Goodbye (1953). The Long Goodbye is praised within an anthology of American crime stories as "arguably the first book since Hammett's The Glass Key, published more than twenty years earlier, to qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just happened to possess elements of mystery." First Edition with matching dates of 1954 on the title and copyright pages; and "First published in the United States, 1954" on the copyright page.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,, 1954.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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 and corners at flap folds, several small creases along the edges and a couple tiny tears, early tape reinforcement to upper spine at jacket verso. Overall, a bright copy, free of repairs or restoration. Housed in a custom slipcase. Bruccoli A10.1.a The Long Good-Bye is the 6th Philip Marlowe mystery and is considered one of Chandler's more autobiographical texts; while he drew on personal experiences as inspirations for many of his novels, Chandler wrote this novel while his wife was dying and references much of his insecurities related to her illness and his own alcoholism throughout the text. In letters to Jamie Hamilton, Chandler's publisher, he wrote of The Long Good-Bye: "The book is a bit longer than LS [The Little Sister] but I don't think I care. I was not writing for speed. I'm bored stiff with the edge of the chair stuff, and much prefer in these times the flat-on-the-back-on-a-comfortable-couch-with-pipe kind of thing" (21 May 1952). Unlike Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op and Sam Spade, who are widely considered the archetypal hard-boiled detective figures, Marlowe possesses a sensitivity underneath his tough exterior that distinguishes him from similar detective characters in the genre. Chandler gave The Long Good-Bye a few re-writes, writing about his Marlowe character: "It begins to look as though I were tied to this fellow for life. I simply can't function without him" (14 July 1951). Hiney & MacShane [editors]. The Raymond Chandler Papers - Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909 - 1959. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond Thornton (1888-1959). The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 316 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in publisher's half blue cloth with green edges with black lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. (Bruccoli A10.1.b.) First American edition, first printing. The English edition preceded the American by a few months. The Long Goodbye is a 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler, centered on his famous detective Philip Marlowe. While some critics consider it inferior to The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, others rank it as the best of his work. Chandler himself, in a letter to a friend, called the novel "my best book" and recalled the agony of writing it while his wife was terminally ill. The novel is notable for using hard-boiled detective fiction as a vehicle for social criticism, as well as for including autobiographical elements from Chandler's life. In 1955, the novel received the Edgar Award for Best Novel. The Long Goodbye is Chandler's most personal novel. He wrote it as his wife was dying and her illness and eventual death had a profound effect on him, driving him into fits of melancholy as well as talk of and even attempts at suicide. The novel contains two characters obviously based on Chandler himself and both of them highlight Chandler's awareness of his own flaws such as alcoholism as well as his insecurities (e.g., in the value of his writing). The most obvious Chandler substitute is the usually drunken author Roger Wade. Like Chandler, Wade had a string of successful novels behind him but as he got older he found it more difficult to write. Also, like Chandler, Wade's 316 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's half blue cloth with green edges with black lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. (Bruccoli A10.1.b.) First American edition, first printing. The English edition preceded the American by a few months. The Long Goodbye is a 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler, centered on his famous detective Philip Marlowe. While some critics consider it inferior to The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, others rank it as the best of his work. Chandler himself, in a letter to a friend, called the novel "my best book" and recalled the agony of writing it while his wife was terminally ill. The novel is notable for using hard-boiled detective fiction as a vehicle for social criticism, as well as for including autobiographical elements from Chandler's life. In 1955, the novel received the Edgar Award for Best Novel. The Long Goodbye is Chandler's most personal novel. He wrote it as his wife was dying and her illness and eventual death had a profound effect on him, driving him into fits of melancholy as well as talk of and even attempts at suicide. The novel contains two characters obviously based on Chandler himself and both of them highlight Chandler's awareness of his own flaws such as alcoholism as well as his insecurities (e.g., in the value of his writing). The most obvious Chandler substitute is the usually drunken author Roger Wade. Like Chandler, Wade had a string of successful novels behind him but as he got older he found it more difficult to write. Also, like Chandler, Wade's novels (romantic fiction) were viewed by many as not real literature and Wade obviously has the desire to be thought of as a serious author. Wade also stands in for Chandler in discussions about literature, e.g., praising F. Scott Fitzgerald. The other Chandler stand-in was Terry Lennox. Lennox was also an alcoholic. Also, like Chandler he had been in a war and the war had left emotional scars. In Lennox's case it was the Second World War; in Chandler's case it was the first. Lennox was a Canadian citizen but he had spent a great deal of time in England and retained the more restrained and formal attitude of an English gentleman. This made him somewhat of an anomaly in the fast paced and more informal world of wealthy Los Angeles that he inhabited due to his wife's money. Chandler was also raised in England and received a classical education there. Chandler also
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$1080.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nice copy in its first printing with 1954 on title page. Unmarked, tight and square. Blue and green boards show moderate wear at spine ends. Dark topstain consistent, textblock supple. Price intact jacket shows rubbing along folds and wear along edges but typical with this book which was incredibly popular. Rear panel has two small chips and creasing along top edge. Minor paper loss at spine ends but wear shows. Possibly his best novel and basis for film that starred Elliot Gould. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin, 1954.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First U.S. Edition; "First published in the United States, 1954," stated on copyright page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Comes housed in a custom slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, RAYMOND & ELLIOTT GOULD. The Long Goodbye. Boston Houghton Mifflin 1954, 1954.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Signed by the actor Elliott Gould who starred in the 1973 film The Long Goodbye. Gould has signed as his character ÔPhilip MarloweÕ and with his own full name. The book is accompanied by an original color photograph of Elliott Gould holding this book. Small vintage ownership signature. Some pitting to cloth else very good copy with a touch of edge wear in a price-clipped dust jacket with shelf wear and rubbing on the rear panel, which has been mended by an expert paper conservationist. The film was directed by Robert Altman, with a screenplay by Leigh Brackett, and co-starred Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, and Henry Gibson.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1954.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the 1954 date printed on the title page. A beautiful copy. This original dustjacket is rich in color with minor to the edges. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy. We buy Chandler First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.