THE LONG GOOD-BYE - UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, INSCRIBED

by Roger Machell To Julian Maclaren Ross by Raymond Chandler

$12,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1953. First Edition. Uncorrected proof copy of Chandler's sixth novel with significant provenance. In addition to his skills as a novelist and screenwriter, Maclaren-Ross 1912-1964 was a noted literary critic who wrote with rare acuity on works of Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Georges Simenon, John Buchan, and M.P. Shiel. A rare proof, with only a single copy this one found in the auction

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