FAREWELL MY LOVELY

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original light brown cloth with dark blue titles to the upper board and spine, in the Hans J. Barschel illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge blue. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with light bumping at the spine tips and corners, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with mild toning to the endpapwer are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near very good rubbed and nicked price-clipped dustwrapper that has small chips at the corners and a couple of tiny holes to the toned and dusty rear panel. Housed in a cloth folding solander box.

The second Philip Marlowe novel and author's favourite of his own work. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. 7500 copies of the first edition were printed. The basis for several film, television and stage adaptations. (Hubin; Bruccoli A2.1.a)