Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$4.50 + shipping
Description: name inside, Good
Seller: Mr.G.D.Price, Mansfield, United Kingdom
Price: US$6.11 + shipping
Description: Four books in one. There has been a covering put on the book, with blue sticky tape on the 4 corners and spine.
Seller: Books@Ruawai, Kaipara District, New Zealand
CHANDLER, Raymond. Pearls are a nuisance. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$10.65 + shipping
Description: Well-worn copy, with yellowed page; cover creased, with chip in edge; loss at foot of spine. Used - Acceptable. Fair paperback
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$11.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel and black and white coloured titles to the back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear panel. A Philip Marlowe mystery. . Rubbing of the book edges and panels with sunning of the back strip. Light tanning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). [8], 9 - 220, [4 Â of which 3+ the verso of the rear panel are further titles from publishing house] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; Inventory No: 0290430.
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Raymond Chandler. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$15.39 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st edition 2nd impression in near fine condition. No markings, all pages clean, binding firm. No jacket, edge wear to boards. Please see pics. Paypal accepted, any questions get in touch.
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
Raymond Chandler. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$15.51 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1953. First Published in GB. 319 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Tears to cloth to spine edges. Staining overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: the jacket is chipped and creased. edge wear on the book. foxing. all pages are clear and legible. sound binding. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Raymond Chandler. Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$17.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1953. First Edition Thus. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Childrens stickers to pastedowns and front endpaper. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. Smart-Aleck Kill. Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London, 1953.
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First UK paperback edition of a collection originally published in hard covers by Hamish Hamilton as part of The Simple Art of Murder in 1950. Small chip out of bottom left hand corner of front cover. Light chipping at top and bottom of spine. Light surface marking to covers which have some price marks in pencil along the top edge of the rear panel. Pages browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. Pearls are a Nuisance. Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London, 1953.
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First UK paperback edition of a collection originally published in hard covers by Hamish Hamilton as part of The Simple Art of Murder in 1950. Quarter inch surface chips at top and bottom of spine and a one inch closed tear running up the edge of the spine next to the rear panel. Light surface marking to covers which have some price marks in pencil along the top edge of the rear panel. Pages browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Raymond Chandler. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$25.66 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dark red boards and spine, the latter a little cocked, lettered in silver. Three miniscule white spots on front cover. Some staining to text block edges. Internally end papers toned.
Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
CHANDLER, Raymond. SMART ALECK KILL. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$25.66 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st Edition, paperback, light scuffing to spine, and very light creasing on cover, previous owners very small neat stamp, price on front cover, obscured, o/w good.
Seller: Joan Andrews, Alton, United Kingdom
Raymond Chandler. Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$26.76 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1953. 317 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Raymond Chandler. Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$26.88 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1953. First Edition Thus. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding is shaky. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Sunning to spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: boards are rubbed, edge worn and a bit knocked. tanning. light foxing, soiling and marks. well bound. fair copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Price: US$28.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: True first British printing. No jacket. Burgundy boards with silver lettering to spine are very good with minor pushing/bumping to corners, the odd very small mark, browning to spine, odd minor bump/rub to edges and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages are tanned. Top of pages slightly dusty. Small (approx. 1cm) tear to bottom edge of one page. (Quite) heavy foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. End-papers tanned with the odd small mark/minor foxing. Occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London, 1953.
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards have a two inch patch of discolouration to the top left corner of the front panel and there is some light discolouration to the rear panel. Browning to the page edges with quite heavy spotting to the top edges and fore edges. Previous owner's name in pen to the front free endpaper. The endpapers have some browning and scattered spotting. There is brown spotting around the edges of the pages at the front and rear of the book but this gradually diminishes and from page 20 onwards the pages only have some browning around the edges where the spotting on the edges has bled onto the pages. The pages have a musty odour but are otherwise clean and unmarked. No jacket although the description of the book from the front flap has been cut away and is laid in. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953., 1953.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Description: 12mo (19x12.5cm), hardback, 320pp. Good condition. No dustwrapper. Burgundy cloth with silver lettering to spine. General light wear, bumped, a few surface marks and scratches, small water (?) mark at lower right rear- some light bleed of colour to lower rear hinge but no other ill-effects, age-toned, foxed, bookseller's label at front pastedown, gift inscription to free front endpaper. A good sound copy. Contents clear and bright. Pictures available on request.
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Publication of 319 pages. Facsimile of a fair dust jacket. The boards are in good condition. There is light foxing on the early and last pages. There are minor marks within the body of the book. The pages are complete and the text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. R*2023/10/12 GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. London: Hamish Hamilton:, 1953.
Price: US$44.90 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Very good in red/brown cloth with slightly dulled spine with a reading crease. Ownership inscription. Lacks dustjacket. Note, ABE will suggest that this is a signed copy. this is not the case, the book is NOT signed by the author.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Raymond Chandler. Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Second impression. Dust and chemical stains top and bottom edges.
Seller: Book Stop, Inc., Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. Smart-Aleck Kill. Hamish Hamilton [1953], London, 1953.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Hamish Hamilton [1953]. Very Good. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First edition. First printing. [Bruccoli AA 7.1 with "2/-" cover price]. Collects: "Smart-Aleck Kill" + "Pick Up on Noon Street" + "Nevada Gas" + "Spanish Blood" [all four stories being taken from the 1950 hardcover edition of THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER published by Hamish Hamilton]. Pictorial [1950's style UK mass market sized to trade sized paperback] wrappers, 192 pages. Small ink notation ["geo.28"] inside the rear cover, else a solid, bright VG+ copy [cheap text paper tanning].; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages .
Seller: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond. Pearls Are A Nuisance. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo (18.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [6],7-190,[2]pp. Modest wear and handling, some creasing to wrappers, with a few touch-ups in black on front wrapper extremities; contents clean; Very Good. Contains an introduction by Chandler, along with three short stories and an essay: "Pearls Are A Nuisance," "Finger Man," "The King In Yellow," and "The Simple Art of Murder." BRUCCOLI AA8.1.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond. Pearls are a Nuisance. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Plus 3 other stories taken from 'The Simple Art of Murder' published in 1950. Vintage paperback edition. Tight and square, unfaded, tiny tear to foot of spine, unmarked internally.
Seller: Mainly Fiction, Auckland, New Zealand
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London, 1953.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards have light bumping at the corners, a slight dent in the bottom edge of the front panel and there is a slight spine lean. Browning and scattered dark spotting to page edges. There is some browning to the endpapers and spotting to the pages at the front and rear of the book but the pages generally otherwise unmarked with a slight odour No jacket. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$58.85 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tiny stain to lower corner of first ten pages, wrinkle to final text page, hinges strong, about very good.
Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, MI, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. THE LONG GOOD-BYE. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$63.80 + shipping
Description: THE LONG GOOD-BYE, Hamish - Hamiltom, 1953, first edition, a few small spots to the bit lightened spine, else a vg+ copy. EDGAR award winner.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Duodecimo. 5 x 7.5 in. 319 pp. Good in the original maroon cloth boards with a binding that has a slight lean, and a fair illustrated dust jacket that has heavy reading wear and a large chunk missing from the lower spine. A prior owner's signature appears on the front free endpaper. Otherwise, the pages are clean and free of foxing or other marks.
Seller: Bagatelle Books, IOBA, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$67.42 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting.
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$70.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp 320. Original cloth. Light spotting to spine & front cover otherwise a tight sound copy.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London, 1953.
Price: US$70.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The boards have faint ring stains to both the front and rear panels. The front panel also has a few light marks in places. The rear panel has ten small white marks in the bottom area. Browning to the page edges with a few light marks here and there on the edges. Previous owner's name in pen to the front free endpaper which has some browning and scattered spotting. A few small spots to the rear free endpaper. There are a few scattered brown spots to the pages at the front of the book and the pages have a slight musty odour but are otherwise clean and unmarked. No jacket. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Raymond Chandler. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$70.55 + shipping
Description: Burgundy cloth boards; silver titles to spine; tightly bound; no inscriptions; foxing mainly to page edges & last few pages; boards slightly marked
Seller: B and A books, Banff, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$72.18 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library.
Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Raymond Chandler. The Long Goodbye. HAMISH HAMILTON, 1953.
Price: US$76.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First, inscription on inner board dated 1953, light rubbing on spine top and light marking on the back, looks much like another on here, light foxing in places otherwise good/very good
Seller: Border Books, Hebden Bridge, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London, 1953.
Price: US$83.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The boards have a small stain to centre of the rear panel, a little fading to the spine and some light marking to the front panel. Browning to the page edges with some spotting to the fore edges. Previous owner's name in pen to the front free endpaper. The pages are browned and have a slight musty odour but are otherwise clean and unmarked. No jacket although this copy comes with a facsimile copy. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Raymond Chandler. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$83.38 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953. Hardback. Condition: Near Fine, no inscriptions. First UK Edition, First printing. Published 1953 by Hamish Hamilton, No dust jacket.
Seller: M&B Books, London, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye [Philip Marlowe 6]. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$83.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. original green boards (slightly rubbed with a little fraying at corners, light stain to front cover, a few marks, paperstock a trifle toned, else clean internally; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 320. A very good copy.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
CHANDLER, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, preceding the American. Neat contemporary gift inscription, corners a bit bumped, about very good lacking the dustwrapper. L.A. in the 1950s, with Marlowe at his best.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Chandler Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$94.29 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No jacket. Page edges a little foxed. Slight tanning to pages. Endpapers have some browning. 320 pages.
Seller: M and M Books, Barkway, HERTS, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$96.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp 320. Original cloth. The unclipped d/w is defective - many tears and chips with much of the rear panel missing. No inscriptions.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond.. PEARLS ARE A NUISANCE.. HAMISH HAMILTON., LONDON, 1953.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. Paperback original. Publishes 4 stories from the collection "The Simple Art of Murder." A good only copy in digest-size printed wrappers. (Text age toned. Small chip at upper tip of rear cover. Reading creases on front cover & trace of rubbing. )
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Raymond Chandler Omnibus. Hamish Hamilton London 1953, 1953.
Price: US$101.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition chipped dust jacket Very Good octavo 632pp., Complete text of The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window; The Lady in the Lake
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Chandler, Raymond. The Raymond Chandler Omnibus. Hamish Hamilton London 1953, 1953.
Price: US$122.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 632pp., Complete text of The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window; The Lady in the Lake. Nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Raymond Chandler. THE LONG GOOD-BYE. Hamish Hamilton London, 1953.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First English edition precedes the American. Publishers orange cloth, titles in black. Trivial wear to lower board edge, VERY GOOD entirely free of any former owner marking.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Raymond Chandler. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Raymond Chandler. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$128.28 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler. 1953. Hamish Hamilton. Small 8vo. First edition, first printing. Maroon cloth with silver lettering to spine, in original dust jacket designed by Fritz Wegner. A near fine copy in fair dust jacket, unclipped with price of 10s 6d net to front flap. With a large chip to front panel at the Ra in Raymond lacking, with a continuing closed tear towards the spine from the loss, and several other small closed tears, small chips to corners and tips with a couple of small nicks to the fore edge joints and spine panel perhaps a touch faded. Presentable enough in Mylar. Maroon cloth mostly excellent, sharp and fine but for spine foot just a trifle faded from exposure, the binding tight with a very minor lean, with a handful of faint spots to top edge and one to bottom edge, but internally otherwise fine and very sharp despite some very faint offsetting to endpapers; the pages clean and bright throughout. A nice example.
Seller: Deep Neutral Books, York, ENGLA, United Kingdom
CHANDLER, Raymond. The Long Good-bye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$141.10 + shipping
Description: Precedes the American first edition. Burgundy cloth, silver titles. Front cover of dustjacket laid in (previous owner has cut this out, sadly.) . VG copy (some shading to the fep where the dustjacket cover has reacted with the paper).
Seller: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, PERTH, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. THE LONG GOOD-BYE. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$141.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good plus to near fine (tiny closed tear to foot of title page; page edges tanned) in a very good dust-wrapper (spine tanning; front panel with two inch-long closed tears held on verso; slight chipping to head of spine and corners).
Seller: Mark Sutcliffe, Grayshott, HAMPS, United Kingdom
Chandler Raymond. The long good-bye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$142.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: nött omslag, second impression
Seller: antikvariat sacher, Malmö, SKÅNE, Sweden
Raymond Chandler. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$144.63 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1953. Hamish Hamilton . Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Burgundy boards. Silver titles. Slight edgewear. Boards slightly marked. End pages discoloured. Page edges foxed. 8 x 5.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. Farewell, My Lovely. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$153.93 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Thrilling Philip Marlowe Crime Novel, including Jewel Thieves and a Gambling Ship. Red cloth cover with Black lettering to spine. 196 Pages, 230g, 7 1/2" Tall. No inscriptions. Cloth colour bright. Very slight dent on top edge of front board. Jacket has some edge wear and 2 very small closed tears at top edge (1/4" long at front and 1/2" long at back). Also a few edge nicks. Unclipped. original price 6s. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" Tall
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First impression of the first UK edition - a Philip Marlowe novel - this first UK edition, published by Hamish Hamilton in 1953, precedes the first US edition which was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1954. In the original dustwrapper designed by Fritz Wegner. ***A very good copy in burgundy cloth-covered boards with silver titles on the spine. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners of boards lightly bumped. Boards clean and unmarked. Spine tight. Internally also very good, with a neat ownership name and date "A. Critchley, December 1953". Interior pages clean. No tears or creases. ***In a good only original dustwrapper, with the striking 1950s cover art by Frotz Wegner intact. Please note that there is tape reinforcing to the back of the dustwrapper, and this shows through on the white back panel. Although fairly complete, there are largish chips at the head of the spine, top corner of the front panel and lower edge of the back panel. There is also quite a lot of creasing and edge wear. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped, and retains the original publisher's printed price of 10s. 6d. net. ***190 mm x 130 mm. 320 pages. ***'"The Long Goodbye" is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1953, his sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe. Some critics consider it inferior to "The Big Sleep" or "Farewell, My Lovely", but others rank it as the best of his work. Chandler, in a letter to a friend, called the novel "my best book". The novel is notable for using hard-boiled detective fiction as a vehicle for social criticism and for including autobiographical elements from Chandler's life. In 1955, the novel received the Edgar Award for Best Novel. It was later adapted as a 1973 film of the same name, updated to 1970s Los Angeles and starring Elliott Gould.' [Wiki] ***A true first impression of the first UK edition of this Raymond Chandler classic, in a good only original dustwrapper, which is printed on thin paper and rarely appears intact. ***'For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good- Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine book in a very fine Facsimile, unclipped(10s. 6d. net) dust wrapper. A excellent alternative to what would be the huge cost of a similar quality, ie mint copy of the original dust wrapper.
Seller: James N. Beal, TORONTO, ON, Canada
Raymond Chandler. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton, UK, 1953.
Price: US$179.59 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition 3rd Imp or 1st Cheap edition 1953. Same format and style as the 1st Edition. The book is very good++ and bright. The wrapper is very good and bright. Edges lightly rubbed and nicked. Light soiling to wrapper rear. Minuscule loss to spine tips. More images can be taken upon request. RefA1234
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton, Boston, 1953.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Maroon cloth, wear. Stated first edition in Great Britain.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. THE LONG GOOD-BYE. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 320 pages. Winner of the 1955 Edgar Award for Best Novel. Basis of the 1973 UA/ Lions Gate film, directed by Robert Altman, starring Elliott Gould and Sterling Hayden. Both text block and binding rock solid tight and clean, save for light shelfwear along edges and spine hinges and a postage stamp-sized rectangle neatly cut form to edge of ffep. Jacket is nearly flawless and UNCLIPPED.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Raymond Chandler. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$205.24 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: HARDBACK - 1953 REPRINT - The book is in fine condition, free of any previous owner marks or inscriptions. The book is tightly bound with very clean, un marked red boards. The dust wrapper is in near fine or better condition with none of the usual fading to the spine. The dust wrapper has been publisher price clipped, and repriced at 7s.6d net. A very nice copy.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London, 1953.
Price: US$218.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards have a quarter inch wide patch of fading to top of the spine. There is a little discolouration to the bottom left corner of the rear panel where it would appear the book has been damp at some time. This corresponds with the worst damage to the jacket and there is also slight discolouration to the bottom right corner of the rear pastedown in the same area. Browning to the page edges with some light spotting. Slight browning to endpapers with a few spots at the front and back of the book. The book has a musty smell but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has a piece missing at the bottom left corner of the rear panel - this is roughly triangular in shape with ragged edges and is about two and half inches in size. The rear panel also has some patches of staining at the bottom and in the centre. The spine has a ragged quarter inch piece missing at the top where there is also a one inch closed tear and there is a little chipping at the bottom. There is a half inch piece missing from the top right corner of the front panel. There is also a little chipping to the top left corner of the rear panel and the bottom right corner of the front panel. The jacket has been reinforced in two places on the reverse with small pieces of tape. Jacket design by Fritz Wegner. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond.. The Long Good-Bye.. Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London, 1953.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First British Edition, First Impression. A Near Fine copy in maroon textured paper covered boards, stamped in silver at spine, lacking the dustwrapper. 320pp. English edition precedes. Near Fine with slight cock, text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Moviesource. Q17577
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. First edition. Dust Jacket is price-clipped and in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector, shows minor wear, chipping at the spine ends and corners. Burgandy cloth cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. THE LONG GOOD-BYE. Hamish Hamilton (1953), London, 1953.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, preceding the 1954 U.S. edition. Faint stain to page fore edges otherwise crisp and fine in good, lightly rubbed dust jacket with some flattened creasing and chips at spine tips taking out first and last letters of "Raymond" and at base of spine taking out most of "Hamilton."
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond.. The long good-bye.. Hamish Hamilton, [1953]., London:, 1953.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 319, [1] pp. Dark red tweed boards, silver lettering on spine (minor shelfwear, slight bumping couple corners), w/ d.j. (minor chipping & tears head & foot of spine, minor loss to head of spine, minor tears & creasing to fore-edges), still VG/G- copy. First British edition of this Edgar-award-winning hard-boiled mystery starring the Private Detective Philip Marlowe, and considered by Chandler to have been his best work.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
RAYMOND CHANDLER. THE LONG GOOD-BYE. HAMISH HAMILTON, London - UK, 1953.
Price: US$250.14 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Wine coloured cloth boards, with silver lettering to the spine in a great condition. Housed in a beautiful first class facsimile dustjacket. It was produced from a first printing originally published in 1953. It retains vibrant colouring. Designed by Fritz Wegner. Retains price to inner prelim. Housed in an archival, protective sleeve. Pages are age-browned with foxing; otherwise all pages are clean and tightly bound. - E N D - Our orders are shipped within 1 or 2 business days.Thanks for your interest.
Seller: Modern_First_Printings, EAST SUSSEX, United Kingdom
Raymond Chandler. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$250.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK - A very good book with clean pages, free of any owner names or inscriptions. Page edges lightly toned but free of any foxing. The maroon boards are clean with a couple of faint marks to the boards. The dust wrapper is very good with a 1" chip to the base of the spine, with a smaller chip to the spine tip. There is a small triangular chip to the back panel. Light creasing and general edgeware. A clean copy of a notoriously fragile dust wrapper that is priced at 10s.6dnet as called for.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$250.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The boards have a one and a half inch patch of fading to the spine and a two inch long strip of fading to the bottom right corner of the rear panel where the jacket is damaged. light bumping at the top and bottom of the spine. Browning to the page edges with a few slight marks to the top edges and three darker brown spots affecting the edges of the first few pages - one of these spots is half an inch long. Slight browning to endpapers with a few spots at the front and back of the book but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has a piece missing at the bottom of the spine and bottom right corner of the rear panel which is two inches square and a bit ragged at the top. There is another half inch chip out of the bottom edge of the front panel. There is also chipping at the top of the spine and the corners. There is quite a bit of rubbing along the edges of the spine and the rear panel has some discolouration. Jacket design by Fritz Wegner. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$256.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp 320. Original cloth, in a decent clean condition. The unclipped pictorial d/w is more or less complete but has tears to top & bottom of spine and a large tear to the lower front panel.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First U.K. Edition, preceding the American by a full year. Nice copy in original dustwrapper, with striking pictorial design; unfortunately a chip on the front panel does way with the "Ra" in Raymond, and another chip removes the "NG" at the top in Long. A couple of chips to the spine, as well, along with rubbing and more minor edgewear.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
RAYMOND CHANDLER. THE LONG GOOD-BYE. HAMISH HAMILTON, LONDON, 1953.
Price: US$359.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST IMPRESSION. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL PRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE PRESENT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 220 PAGES. SOME CHIPS & RUBBING TO EDGES OF DUST JACKET WITH A FEW SMALL CREASES TO EDGES OF JACKET, VERY SLIGHT FADING TO CLOTH AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINE, ENDPAPERS LIGHTLY BROWNED, FEW MINOR MARKS TO PAGE FORE-EDGES. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY WITH NO MAJOR FAULTS. PLEASE NOTE: DUST JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING THAT MAY SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS OR WRINKLES IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Chandler (Raymond). The Long Good-Bye.. Hamish Hamilton,, London,, 1953.
Price: US$378.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (preceding the first US edition by a few months). 8vo. Original burgundy boards. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 10s.6d. Fine; dust-jacket worn at fore-corners and head of spine with slight loss, a few old closed tears with neat tape-repairs to inside with slight show through in a couple of places, slight loss of colour to spine, but overall G+. Dust-jacket artwork by Fritz Wegner. Chandler's hard-boiled noir classic, defined by the author himself as "my best book". In 1955, the novel received the Edgar Award for Best Novel. It was later adapted as a 1973 film of the same name, updated to 1970s Los Angeles and starring Elliott Gould.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Raymond Chandler. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, UK, 1953.
Price: US$384.83 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Long Good-Bye by Raymond Chandler First Edition 2nd Imp Hamish Hamilton December 1953. First published November 1953. A very fine copy. No inscriptions and clean throughout. Covers have no bumping and are completely unmarked. In original VG+ dust jacket that has the same issue points as the first impression. Not price clipped.
Seller: Brought to Book Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$384.83 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first impression. The sixth novel to feature Philip Marlowe. Original burgundy cloth with white lettering to spine. A little spotting to edges, else near fine. The original and unclipped dust jacket has several nicks, chips and tears to edges with small area of loss half way down upper flap fore-edge, otherwise a good example of a jacket that is often found in worn condition.
Seller: Fine Book Cellar Ltd. ABA ILAB PBFA, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, UK, 1953.
Price: US$481.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, UK, 1953. 1st edition. Original cloth. Size: 13.3cm x 19.1cm. Pp. 320. A Philip Marlowe novel and arguably one of his finest works. The true first edition, published a year before the US edition. Minor marks to the fore-edge and front board else a very good indeed, tight, bright, clean copy in good, nicked, chipped and rubbed dustwrapper which has a few closed tears and a small amount of loss to the head and tail of the spine. Given the fragility of the paper stock used for the dustwrapper this is nevertheless a very nice copy.
Seller: Hornseys, Ripon, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$499.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Burgundy cloth, silver gilt titling. Offset to endpages, light foxing mostly to text block edges. Bookstore stamp to ffep. Price-clipped jacket in mylar has edgewear, rubbing along spine, tiny hole to front panel, light soil. It has had two tiny holes on front panel nearly invisibly repaired. First U. K. Edition which precedes U. S. Edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Raymond Chandler. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$501.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A good-condition dustjacket with some small loss on the top spine of the DJ. Otherwise, the jacket is complete and clean in a Mylar wrapper. The book has a clean, tight binding with no rips, tears, or pen marks. A seventy-year-old artifact in relatively good shape.
Seller: PulpFiction, Glebe, NSW, Australia
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$599.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Maroon cloth titled in silver gilt. Slight softening to spine ends, small bump to bottom board edge else square sound unmarked copy. The DJ in with flap price intact has had the benefit of professional restoration and has some tape ghosts to rear panel, minor wrinkling and chipping but presents nicely in its mylar cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, Raymond.. The Long Good-Bye.. Hamish Hamilton, London., 1953.
Price: US$609.31 + shipping
Description: First edition. Precedes the American edition. Octavo. 320 pages.Light (tea?) stain at top of page 299. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Very good in rubbed, torn and chipped dustwrapper defective at head and tail of spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond Thornton (1888-1959). The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 320 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's maroon with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Jacket design by Fritz Wegner. (Bruccoli A10.1.a.) First edition, first printing. The English edition preceded the American by a few months. Critics and writers, ranging from W. H. Auden to Evelyn Waugh to Ian Fleming, greatly admired the finely wrought prose of Raymond Chandler. Although his swift-moving, hardboiled style was inspired mostly by Dashiell Hammett, his sharp and lyrical similes are original: "The muzzle of the Luger looked like the mouth of the Second Street tunnel"; "The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips", defining private eye fiction genre, and leading to the coining of the adjective 'Chandleresque', which is subject and object of parody and pastiche. Yet, Philip Marlowe is not a stereotypical tough guy, but a complex, sometimes sentimental man of few friends, who attended university, speaks some Spanish and, at times, admires Mexicans, is a student of classical chess games and classical music. He will refuse a prospective client's money if he is ethically unsatisfied by the job. The high critical regard in which Chandler is generally held today is in contrast to the critical pans that stung Chandler in his lifetime. In a March 1942 letter to Mrs. Blanche Knopf, published in Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler, Chandler complained: "The thing that rather gets me down is that when I write something that is tough and fast and full of mayhem and murder, I get panned for being tough and fast and full of mayhem and murder, and then when I try to tone down a bit and develop the mental and emotional side of a situation, I get panned for leaving out what I was panned for putting in the first time." Chandler's short stories and novels are evocatively written, conveying the time, place, and ambiance of Los Angeles and environs in the 1930s and 1940s. The places are real, if pseudonymous: Bay City is Santa Monica, Gray Lake is Silver Lake, and Idle Valley a synthesis of rich San Fernando Valley communities. Raymond Chandler also was a perceptive critic of pulp fiction; his essay "The Simple Art of Murder" is the standard reference work in the field. All but one of his novels have been cinematically adapted, notably The Big Sleep (1946), by Howard Hawks, with Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe; novelist William Faulkner was a co-screenplay writer. Raymond Chandler's few screen writing efforts and the cinematic adaptation of his novels proved stylistically and thematically influential upon the American film noir genre. Condition: Previous owner's small neat signature and acquired date and place on front end paper, head corners gently bumped. Jacket professionally repaired at spine ends and edges, slight rippling and soiling at back else a very good copy in like jacket.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Raymond Chandler. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$737.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Long Good-Bye, Raymond Chandler, Hamish Hamilton, 1953, First Edition, First Impression Adapted into a film in 1973 starring Elliot Gould and winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1955, this is the sixth and last of the full-length novels that Chandler wrote featuring his iconic detective, Philip Marlowe. This is the author's most personal novel, written whilst his wife was dying. He based two of the book's characters on himself, highlighting awareness of his own flaws - his alcoholism and his doubts about the value of his writing. Preceding the US First Edition, this is the First Edition, First Impression of this work. The book is in very good condition. The binding is straight and tight, the boards clean and the silver gilt lettering on the spine is sharp. There is slight shelf wear to the top and bottom edges of the spine. The end papers and pages are clean without marks or tears. The very rare unclipped dust jacket, protected in a clear removable cover, is in fair condition with loss to the top and bottom corners of the front and back cover, the top and bottom edges of the spine and the edge of the back cover. There is a tear to the bottom edge of the back cover. Not seen often and very rarely with a dust jacket this volume would make a valuable edition to a library or a wonderful gift. Will be dispatched, fully insured, tracked and signed, carefully wrapped in bubblewrap and in a cardboard box.
Seller: Grimes Hill Book Club, Wythall, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: A near fine copy handsomely bound in the original maroon cloth lettered brightly in silver on the spine. Exceptionally clean and tight throughout; virtually unread. In a very good plus original pictorial dust jacket designed by Fritz Wegner with the correct price of "10s. 6d. net" at the bottom of the inside front flap . With light chipping and wear to the top and bottom of the spine ends, light edge-wear along the spine folds and the front fold which has a closed tear at the bottom edge. A few tiny closed tears the top edges of the front panel near the spine. A few tiny touches of tape residue over the tiny tears on the verso. An attractive copy of the first English edition of the sixth Philip Marlowe novel, published the year before the American edition. Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth, in progress at the time of his death, was completed by Robert B. Parker). All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America.[1]Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature. He is a founder of the hardboiled school of detective fiction, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers. The protagonist of his novels, Philip Marlowe, like Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective". Both were played in films by Humphrey Bogart, whom many consider to be the quintessential Marlowe.The Big Sleep placed second on the Crime Writers Association poll of the 100 best crime novels; Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Lady in the Lake (1943) and The Long Goodbye (1953) also made the list.[2] The latter novel was praised in 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". Chandler was also a perceptive critic of detective fiction; his "The Simple Art of Murder" is the canonical essay in the field.[3][4] In it he wrote: "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honorby instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world. (Wikipedia) First edition with "First Published in Great Britain in 1953"on the copyright page and no subsequent printings listed.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.44 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition thus; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, original backstrip mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The UK edition precedes the US edition which was published in the following year.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Raymond Chandler. The Long Good- Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$833.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK - A very good or better book with clean maroon boards. The silver lettering to the spine is bright with no fading. There is a little pushing to the spine tips. Internally the pages are clean with a touch of foxing to the top page block, as well as to the first and last couple of pages. No previous owner names or inscriptions are present. The dust wrapper is a very good example with light fading to the spine, but much less than what is normally encountered. There is light chipping to the spine tips, as well as to the corners of the front and rear flap folds. To the reverse of the dust wrapper is a small strip of tape. This does not show through to the front panel. Correctly priced at 10s.6d.net.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. 320 pp. Original maroon cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine with slightly dust-soiled edges, tiny stain to page 13, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with wear and a little chipping along top edge and foot. The first appearance of Chandler's sixth novel, preceding the American edition.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton 1953, 1953.
Price: US$962.07 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Hamish Hamilton in 1953. A near fine book with some minute spotting to the page edges - no inscriptions. In a very good unclipped wrapper with a small internal tape repair to the inside. Some chipping to the spine top and to corners and some creasing to the extremities. Some general edgewear - becoming scarce.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton 1953, 1953.
Price: US$1026.21 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$1090.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Hamish Hamilton, (1953). First edition. This is a very good or better copy. The dust wrapper, illustrated by Fritz Wegner is clean and highly presentable; the corners feature a mild wear, the top and bottom edges are mildly scuffed, and the rear panel is browned in places. It has not been price clipped. The boards are covered in a deep red cloth and are without marks. They are tightly bound at the spine and sharp at the corners, The text blocks are bright and white but has mild foxing on the side. Overall, this is a very good or better copy and is particularly rare in this condition. The sixth novel featuring the private investigator, Philip Marlowe.
Seller: The Plantagenet King ABA / ILAB, Birchington, KENT, United Kingdom
Chandler (Raymond).. The Long Good-bye. Hamish Hamilton,, 1953.
Price: US$1212.21 + shipping
Description: Fine copy in slightly nicked and edgeworn dust-wrapper by Fritz Wegner
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Raymond Chandler. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$1218.62 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardback - A near fine book. There is a neat ownership inscription to the front endpaper. The page block is white and without foxing. The dustwrapper is a very clean example, especially to the rear panel. There is light rubbing to the spine tips and to the spine folds. There is also a small closed tear to the front panel, else a very nice title, one of the best examples we have encountered.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. THE LONG GOOD-BYE. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$1363.75 + shipping
Description: THE LONG GOOD-BYE, Hamish-Hamilton, 1953, first edition, some foxing to the t.p.e.'s, some brief light foxing to a small area of the end-papers, else a bright near fine copy in a vg+/near fine dust-wrapper with some minor color restoration to the midsection of the spine folds and light dust-soll to the rear dust-wrapper panel. Philip Marlowe #6. EDGAR award winner and source book for the film of the same name.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
CHANDLER, RAYMOND.. THE LONG GOOD-BYE.. Hamish Hamilton, [1953]., London, 1953.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Precedes U.S. edition published in 1954. Fine, bright copy in price-clipped dust jacket with light professional restoration at the edges. Edgar award winner for best mystery novel of 1955. H.R.F. Keating lists it as #49 on his 100 Best Crime & Mystery Books. 20th Century Crime and Mystery Writers says, "The Long Good-Bye seems to me not only Chandler's best but the masterwork of hard-boiled detective-fiction, providing an image of how much can be done with the genre." In 1973 a movie directed by Robert Altman, with Leigh Brackett as screenwriter, and starring Elliott Gould was unfavorably reviewed as being "a spit in the eye to a great writer." Housed in a cloth clamshell case that is imprinted with the book's dust jacket design.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 320 pp. 8vo. A fine copy of the first edition of the sixth Philip Marlowe novel, published the year before the American edition. Bruccoli A10.1.a Original maroon cloth lettered in silver on spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Fritz Wegner. A few tiny tears to jacket and slight rubbing to spine folds, but a fine, attractive copy, in a custom calf box
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
CHANDLER RAYMOND. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953.
Price: US$3655.87 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Publisher's maroon boards with silver spine lettering. Offsetting to both sets of end-papers and foxing to the page edges at the front and rear of the text block. Overall a near fine copy with boards exceptionally bright and clean. The D/W is a fine example and is priced 10s 6d net to the inside flap (as called for). Beautifully clean back panel. A notoriously difficult book to find in such nice, collectable condition. A rare survivor and a much nicer copy than normally seen. Photographs/scans available upon request
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Chandler, Raymond. The Raymond Chandler Omnibus. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$34000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Inscribed on the first blank page. "To The Lowers? with love", signed and dated by the author. No defects in book. Tight and square. Jacket has 15s, net at bottom of front flap. Just a touch of wear at the edges of the jacket. No fading or rubbing. Real panel of jacket has light soil. States "Second Impression 1955" on copyright page. Very likely inscribed to the same couple as "The Long Good-bye" listed for sale by Indian Hills Books. Both books were inscribed and signed on the same day in 1955.
Seller: Indian Hills Books, Blountville, TN, U.S.A.
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Price: US$48000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Inscribed on the first blank page. "For Frank & Mildred with my best", signed and dated by the author. No defects in book. Tight and square. Jacket has 10s 6d. net at bottom of front flap. Wear at corners of jacket. Soiling to back panel of jacket. 1" piece missing at heel of spine for width of spine. Creasing and wrinkling to bottom 1" of front panel of jacket. States "First Published in Great Britain , 1953" on copyright page. Very likely inscribed to the same couple as "The Raymond Candler Omnibus" listed for sale by Indian Hills Books. Both books were inscribed and signed on the same day in 1955.
Seller: Indian Hills Books, Blountville, TN, U.S.A.