Raymond Chandler | Farewell, My Lovely, 1940

Raymond Chandler

Farewell, My Lovely. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original orange cloth lettered in blue, DUST-JACKET, some soiling and abrasions to endpapers, some spotting to edges, binding bumped at head and foot of spine, some browning and soiling to dust-jacket, dust-jacket lacking upper flap (a section of which is laid-down to front fixed endpaper)

The second Philip Marlowe story and the first to be filmed. There have been three filmed versions: in 1942 (as The Falcon Takes Over), 1944 (as Murder, My Sweet) and 1975.

LITERATURE

Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone

PROVENANCE

The Alexis Galanos Collection