Sell or Auction Your Raymond Chandler Farewell, My Lovely First Edition for up to Nearly $20,000 or More at Nate D. Sanders

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Raymond Chandler Farewell, My Lovely First Edition Sold

Farewell, My Lovely is Raymond Chandler’s second novel based on his character, Los Angeles detective Philip Marlowe. Philip Marlowe appears in other works of Chandler such as The Big Sleep, The High Window, and The Lady in the Lake. The story’s plot was inspired by Chandler’s previously written short stories, Try the Girl, Mandarin’s Jade, and The Man Who Liked Dogs. Farewell, My Lovely has been adapted into multiple films, with one version casting actor Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe who also portrays Marlowe in the 1978 version of The Big Sleep.

A first edition copy of Farewell, My Lovely was published in 1940 by Alfred A. Knopf and is housed between salmon-orange colored cloth boards. A first edition signed copy of Farewell, My Lovely sold for almost $20,000.

We sold a signed copy of Farewell, My Lovely for $4,410. Please see details below:

Raymond Chandler Signed “Farewell, My Lovely”

Raymond Chandler signed copy of “Farewell, My Lovely.” New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Hardcover with dustjacket, 5″ x 7.5″, 275pp. Inscribed to front free endpaper, “For Maria Mariello, with the hope that she will do much better than I have, Raymond Chandler, May 10, 1945, Hollywood, California.” Damp staining to inner front and back covers leaves faint strip touching several words of the inscription. Light fading & soiling to backstrip. Some chipping & wear to DJ. Very good. Sold for $4,410.

We also sold a first edition copy of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep:

Very Rare First Edition, First Printing of Raymond Chandler’s Masterpiece “The Big Sleep” — The Book That Brought His Detective Philip Marlowe to Fame — With Original Scarce Dustjacket

Scarce first printing, first edition of Raymond Chandler’s most famous book, “The Big Sleep.” New York: Alfred A. Knopf: 1939. This novel introduced Philip Marlowe, the detective whose famous first lines in the novel illuminated a character that would forever change the canon of noir and establish the primacy of the hard-boiled detective novel as a genre during the 30’s and 40’s: “I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be.” 277pp. book is in publisher’s original orange cloth, with very minor edge wear and very slight fading to the spine. Some discoloration along the hinges of the endpapers from binder’s glue. Original full-color unclipped $2.00 dustjacket has a few tiny chips and areas of loss to the edges, including one very short closed tear to top edge of jacket. An incredibly scarce copy of Chandler’s seminal work, rarely encountered in a well-kept and unrestored dust jacket. Sold for $2,600.

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