The Long Good-Bye First English edition of the sixth Philip Marlowe novel, published the year before the American edition

Chandler, Raymond

Edité par Hamish Hamilton, London, 1953

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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. Touches of soiling to the rear panel. 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. 1st Edition with "First Published in Great Biritain, 1953.

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• Titre: The Long Good-Bye First English edition of the sixth Philip Marlowe novel, published the year before the American edition
• Éditeur: Hamish Hamilton, London
• Date de parution: 1953
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Dust Jacket Included
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Detective Fiction