The Long Goodbye
Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1954. Lorraine, Walter H. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Item #2353137
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with closed tear on corner taped by previous owner, some discolored patches to spine cloth, tape remnants on endpapers, maybe from a previously attached jacket cover. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked.
316 pp. Walter H. Lorraine jacket art. Inspiration for 1973 film starring Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, David Arkin, and Jim Bouton, with an early, uncredited appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger. In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
Price: $500.00