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The Long Goodbye.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. [Crime Thrillerl] FIRST US EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] 316. Publisher's green and blue cloth, with dark green titles to spine and upper. Top edge green. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Walter H. Lorraine. Minor blue ink price to fly-leaf, otherwise internally crisp and clean. Price-clipped jacket shows moderate general wear and chipping. Very good. A classic Marlowe case, and winner of the 1954 Mystery Writers of America award. The US edition follows the UK edition by a full year. Item #72028
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