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CHANDLER, RAYMOND.
Farewell, My Lovely.
8vo, original wrappers with
dust jacket image, some rubbing along joints and backstrip extremities with a small repair
to upper corner, front wrapper with miniscule separations at head and foot of backstrip,
light tanning to rear cover; faded publisher’s inkstamp to top-edges, two small ink smudges
on front flyleaf; custom two-toned brown cloth clamshell box.
NewYork: Knopf, 1940
[5,000/7,500]
ADVANCE REVIEW COPY
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Scarce on the market; we locate only four copies appearing at auction in the
last two decades, and none since 2007 (Swann, May 17, 2007, lot 314). Increasingly uncommon,
especially as found here. Bruccoli A2.1.a; Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.