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First edition, first printing, in a lovely example of the striking jacket. Farewell, My Lovely, a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone, was adapted for screen on three occasions, and was the first Philip Marlowe novel to be filmed. In this "ingeniously plotted" story, "Chandler explored his detective's fallibility and vulnerability" (ODNB). Octavo. Original pink cloth, lettering on front board and spine in blue, publisher's device in blue to rear cover, top edge blue. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom pink cloth solander box. Extremities slightly rubbed, faint offsetting to endpapers, couple of tiny marks to rear cover, subsequent spots offset to jacket verso, contents clean. A near-fine copy in very good dust jacket, price-clipped, rubbed at folds, spine panel browned with couple of small damp stains, a couple of nicks to ends, front panel still bright. Bruccoli A2.1.a.

Farewell, My Lovely is a detective novel by Raymond Chandler, featuring his iconic private eye Philip Marlowe. First published in 1940, it is Chandler's second novel.