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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. Black ink ownership of Maurice J. Barry, Jr. to front pastedown. Moderately toned throughout, otherwise internally clean. Minor wear to cloth extremities. Moderate to heavy wear to jacket edges and joints, very slightly toned to spine, with some losses also to head and tail of spine. 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 #75850
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