Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
CHANDLER, RAYMOND. The Long Goodbye. 8vo, publisher's blue and green cloth lettered in dark green, spine sunned and tips rubbed slightly; dust jacket, several tape repairs to verso, corners clipped, spine panel tips chipped and creased affecting first word in title, colors still bright. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954

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first american edition. Chandler's last major work and among his best. Basis for Robert Altman's 1973 neo-noir with a script by Leigh Brackett, who also co-wrote the screenplay for The Big Sleep more than 25 years earlier. Bruccoli A10.2.a.