Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
CHANDLER, RAYMOND. Farewell, My Lovely. 8vo, original orange cloth, covers and spine lettered in blue; dust jacket, slightly browned, 1/4 inch closed tear at top of front panel, front flap corners and foot of spine panel nicked lightly, few tiny holes along flap folds; usual minor discoloration to endpapers, else clean internally with no markings; preserved in custom cloth drop-back case. New York: Knopf, 1940

Additional Details

first edition of one of Chandler's finest novels and the first of his works to be filmed. The resulting picture, The Falcon Takes Over, borrowed the plot of the source material but replaced the Marlowe character with Michael Arlen's gentleman sleuth Gay Lawrence (played by George Sanders). Bruccoli A2.1.a; Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.