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First edition, first printing, advance review copy; the top edge is stamped "sample copy not for sale" and the front free endpaper is inscribed with the publisher's code dated March. The wrappers are taken from the stock of dust jackets for the official publication in hardcover, which appeared the following October. 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 red illustrated wrappers, taken from the dust jacket stock and retaining unclipped flaps. Spine cocked and sunned, small wear to spine foot, contents clean. A near-fine copy of this fragile issue. 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.