The Long Good-Bye

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.