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The Long Good-Bye
de Chandler, Raymond
- Usado
- First
- Estado
- Original maroon cloth lettered in silver on spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Fritz Wegner. A few tiny tears to jacket and sligh
- Librería
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New York, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First edition. 320 pp. 8vo. Original maroon cloth lettered in silver on spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Fritz Wegner. A few tiny tears to jacket and slight rubbing to spine folds, but a fine, attractive copy, in a custom calf box. First edition. 320 pp. 8vo. A fine copy of the first edition of the sixth Philip Marlowe novel, published the year before the American edition. Bruccoli A10.1.a
Sinopsis
Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Although he was born in Chicago, Chandler spent most of his boyhood and youth in England where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a freelance journalist for The Westminster Gazette and The Spectator . During World War I, Chandler served in France with the First Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, transferring later to the Royal Flying Corps (R. A. F.). In 1919 he returned to the United States, settling in California, where he eventually became director of a number of independent oil companies. The Depression put an end to his career, and in 1933, at the age of forty-five, he turned to writing fiction, publishing his first stories in Black Mask . Chandler’s detective stories often starred the brash but honorable Philip Marlowe (introduced in 1939 in his first novel, The Big Sleep ) and were noted for their literate presentation and dead-on critical eye. Never a prolific writer, Chandler published only one collection of stories and seven novels in his lifetime. Some of Chandler’s novels, like The Big Sleep , were made into classic movies which helped define the film noir style. In the last year of his life he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died in La Jolla, California on March 26, 1959.
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- Librería
- James Cummins Bookseller
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 308452
- Título
- The Long Good-Bye
- Autor
- Chandler, Raymond
- Formato/Encuadernación
- 320 pp. 8vo
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Original maroon cloth lettered in silver on spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Fritz Wegner. A few tiny tears to jacket and sligh
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- Hamish Hamilton
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1953
- Palabras clave
- American | Detective Fiction | Raymond Chandler
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature;
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