CHANDLER, Raymond. The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler. 1953. Hamish Hamilton. Small 8vo. First edition, first printing. Maroon cloth with silver lettering to spine, in original dust jacket designed by Fritz Wegner. A near fine copy in fair dust jacket, unclipped with price of 10s 6d net to front flap. With a large chip to front panel at the ‘Ra’ in ‘Raymond’ lacking, with a continuing closed tear towards the spine from the loss, and several other small closed tears, small chips to corners and tips with a couple of small nicks to the fore edge joints and spine panel perhaps a touch faded. Presentable enough in Mylar. Maroon cloth mostly excellent, sharp and fine but for spine foot just a trifle faded from exposure, the binding tight with a very minor lean, with a handful of faint spots to top edge and one to bottom edge, but internally otherwise fine and very sharp despite some very faint offsetting to endpapers; the pages clean and bright throughout. A nice example.
The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler. 1953. Hamish Hamilton. Small 8vo. First edition, first printing. Maroon cloth with silver lettering to spine, in original dust jacket designed by Fritz Wegner. A near fine copy in fair dust jacket, unclipped with price of 10s 6d net to front flap. With a large chip to front panel at the ‘Ra’ in ‘Raymond’ lacking, with a continuing closed tear towards the spine from the loss, and several other small closed tears, small chips to corners and tips with a couple of small nicks to the fore edge joints and spine panel perhaps a touch faded. Presentable enough in Mylar. Maroon cloth mostly excellent, sharp and fine but for spine foot just a trifle faded from exposure, the binding tight with a very minor lean, with a handful of faint spots to top edge and one to bottom edge, but internally otherwise fine and very sharp despite some very faint offsetting to endpapers; the pages clean and bright throughout. A nice example.
The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler. 1953. Hamish Hamilton. Small 8vo. First edition, first printing. Maroon cloth with silver lettering to spine, in original dust jacket designed by Fritz Wegner. A near fine copy in fair dust jacket, unclipped with price of 10s 6d net to front flap. With a large chip to front panel at the ‘Ra’ in ‘Raymond’ lacking, with a continuing closed tear towards the spine from the loss, and several other small closed tears, small chips to corners and tips with a couple of small nicks to the fore edge joints and spine panel perhaps a touch faded. Presentable enough in Mylar. Maroon cloth mostly excellent, sharp and fine but for spine foot just a trifle faded from exposure, the binding tight with a very minor lean, with a handful of faint spots to top edge and one to bottom edge, but internally otherwise fine and very sharp despite some very faint offsetting to endpapers; the pages clean and bright throughout. A nice example.