First edition of Chandler’s second Marlowe novel, in a sharp and unrestored first-issue dust jacket.
Publisher and Year: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940
Edition: First edition (stated), first printing, in the original first issue dust jacket, retaining the price of $2.00 on the front flap. Bruccoli A2.1.a
Condition and Description: Publisher's orange-brick cloth lettered and decorated in blue, top edge stained blue, 275 pp. A fine copy with hardly any discernable imperfection, with strong color, tight hinges and binding, no prior owner's markings, and clean pages. The original dust jacket has minor wear to the spine ends and extremities, a small stain and very slight toning to the spine, and a little loss to the tips (most prominently at the bottom of the rear fold, encroaching into the panel). An uncommonly sharp example of the book and jacket, completely unrestored.
“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.”
Farewell, My Lovelysolidified Marlowe as the definitive hardboiled detective: cynical, solitary, and governed by a moral clarity that cuts through the surrounding rot. The book tightens the loose structure ofThe Big Sleepand sharpens the language. The violence is cleaner, the tone more controlled, and the style finally his. Set against a decaying Los Angeles, the novel helped establish the genre’s core terrain: civic corruption, moral fatigue, and the inevitability of failure. The novel was the first of Chandler’s to be filmed. In 1942,The Falcon Takes Overborrowed its plot, replacing Marlowe with George Sanders’s gentleman detective. In 1944,Murder, My Sweetintroduced Philip Marlowe to American audiences, with Dick Powell in the role and the UK release retaining the novel’s original title. The 1975 remake starred Robert Mitchum and helped anchor Marlowe in the emerging language of neo-noir.
Inventory ID: 502 - 318 - 646
First edition of Chandler’s second Marlowe novel, in a sharp and unrestored first-issue dust jacket.
Publisher and Year: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940
Edition: First edition (stated), first printing, in the original first issue dust jacket, retaining the price of $2.00 on the front flap. Bruccoli A2.1.a
Condition and Description: Publisher's orange-brick cloth lettered and decorated in blue, top edge stained blue, 275 pp. A fine copy with hardly any discernable imperfection, with strong color, tight hinges and binding, no prior owner's markings, and clean pages. The original dust jacket has minor wear to the spine ends and extremities, a small stain and very slight toning to the spine, and a little loss to the tips (most prominently at the bottom of the rear fold, encroaching into the panel). An uncommonly sharp example of the book and jacket, completely unrestored.
“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.”
Farewell, My Lovelysolidified Marlowe as the definitive hardboiled detective: cynical, solitary, and governed by a moral clarity that cuts through the surrounding rot. The book tightens the loose structure ofThe Big Sleepand sharpens the language. The violence is cleaner, the tone more controlled, and the style finally his. Set against a decaying Los Angeles, the novel helped establish the genre’s core terrain: civic corruption, moral fatigue, and the inevitability of failure. The novel was the first of Chandler’s to be filmed. In 1942,The Falcon Takes Overborrowed its plot, replacing Marlowe with George Sanders’s gentleman detective. In 1944,Murder, My Sweetintroduced Philip Marlowe to American audiences, with Dick Powell in the role and the UK release retaining the novel’s original title. The 1975 remake starred Robert Mitchum and helped anchor Marlowe in the emerging language of neo-noir.
Inventory ID: 502 - 318 - 646
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