Provenance: Joe Messick (presentation inscription) – Maurice Neville (his sale, Sotheby's New York, 16 November 2005, lot 490 for $15,600). Original blue and green cloth dust jacket (chipping at flap folds, with large closed tear to rear flap, old tape remains reinforcing corners) in custom case. Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye tags: change, life, parting, romantics 3923 likes Like There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself. The Long Goodbye was praised in an anthology of American crime stories as 'arguably the first book since Hammett's The Glass Key, published more than. RBH and ABPC record only two other inscribed copies of this edition. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler 40,208 ratings, 4.19 average rating, 2,596 reviews The Long Goodbye Quotes Showing 1-30 of 159 To say goodbye is to die a little. Some of Chandler's novels are considered important literary works, and three are often considered masterpieces: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Little Sister (1949), and The Long Goodbye (1953). Joe Messick was the husband of Chandler’s faithful secretary and caretaker Juanita Messick, who typed up the final draft from the author’s half sheets. Aug 21st, 1954, La Jolla, California." The last great novel of Chandler’s career, it won the Edgar for Best Novel and is still regarded as the most penetrating of the Philip Marlowe novels. Inscribed by Chandler: "For Joe Messick with best wishes of Ye Impecunious Author, Ray. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954.Ī presentation copy of the first American edition-“if this is not literature, what is?” (Burgess).
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