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The Long Goodbye by Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888–1959)

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Title: The Long Goodbye
Author: Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888–1959)
Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: 316 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's half blue cloth with green edges with black lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. (Bruccoli A10.1.b.) First American edition, first printing with an original run of 10,000 copies printed..The English edition preceded the American by a few months. The Long Goodbye is a 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler, centered on his famous detective Philip Marlowe. While some critics consider it inferior to The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, others rank it as the best of his work. Chandler himself, in a letter to a friend, called the novel "my best book" and recalled the agony of writing it while his wife was terminally ill. The novel is notable for using hard-boiled detective fiction as a vehicle for social criticism, as well as for including autobiographical elements from Chandler's life. In 1955, the novel received the Edgar Award for Best Novel. The Long Goodbye is Chandler's most personal novel. He wrote it as his wife was dying and her illness and eventual death had a profound effect on him, driving him into fits of melancholy as well as talk of and even attempts at suicide. The novel contains two characters obviously based on Chandler himself and both of them highlight Chandler's awareness of his own flaws such as alcoholism as well as his insecurities (e.g., in the value of his writing). The most obvious Chandler substitute is the usually drunken author Roger Wade. Like Chandler, Wade had a string of successful novels behind him but as he got older he found it more difficult to write. Also, like Chandler, Wade's novels (romantic fiction) were viewed by many as not real literature and Wade obviously has the desire to be thought of as a serious author. Wade also stands in for Chandler in discussions about literature, e.g., praising F. Scott Fitzgerald. The other Chandler stand-in was Terry Lennox. Lennox was also an alcoholic. Also, like Chandler he had been in a war and the war had left emotional scars. In Lennox's case it was the Second World War; in Chandler's case it was the first. Lennox was a Canadian citizen but he had spent a great deal of time in England and retained the more restrained and formal attitude of an English gentleman. This made him somewhat of an anomaly in the fast paced and more informal world of wealthy Los Angeles that he inhabited due to his wife's money. Chandler was also raised in England and received a classical education there. Chandler also retained a great love for the English and what he viewed as their more civilized way of life compared to the shallowness and superficiality of Los Angeles. This frequently put him at odds with screen writing collaborators such as Billy Wilder as well as with most of Los Angeles and Hollywood society.Condition: Spine sunned and tips lightly rubbed. Jacket with several tape repairs to verso, corners clipped, spine panel tips chipped and creased affecting first word in title, color still bright else a very good copy in like jacket.

The Elegant Preceptor; or, an Introduction to the Knowledge of the World. Containing, Instructions in Morality, and in Useful and Ornamental Accomplishments. Selected from the Works of the most eminent Writers

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Title: The Elegant Preceptor; or, an Introduction to the Knowledge of the World. Containing, Instructions in Morality, and in Useful and Ornamental Accomplishments. Selected from the Works of the most eminent Writers
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: London: Printed by W. M'Dowell for B. Crosby and Co., 1809 Third Edition. Includes a section by Ms. More (Hannah More?) criticizing contemporary female education, which was entirely focused on the arts. The first edition was published in 1803. . Contemporary quarter green sheep over drab boards. Twelvemo. Engraved frontispiece. Binding extremities worn or rubbed. Spine slightly toned with a few small chips and tears. A bit of dampstaining to rear boards and last few leaves, touching text but not affecting legibility. Light foxing and intermittent slight browning, the occasional minor marginal tear. A very good copy. We were unable to find any information about the author of the present work with the resources that are available to us. The Elegant Preceptor is divided into five sections: morals (regulation of the passions, sensuality and temperance contrasted charity, sympathy, etc.). manners (i.e. true politeness, rules for propriety of behaviour, rules for conversation), amusements (i.e. exercise, the benefit of study, frivolous amusements censurable), accomplishments, and knowledge of the world (travel, conversation, irregular pleasures, error in the education of youth, a portrait of mankind, etc.). The writers referenced in the present work include Godwin, Chapone, Aiken, Edgeworth, and Wollstoncraft

Portrait photo by Maull and Polyblank. Matted by Warren, Samuel

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Title: Portrait photo by Maull and Polyblank. Matted
Author: Warren, Samuel
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: London, 1856. Warren, Samuel (1807-77). Lawyer, Member of Parliament, author of popular novels including the best-selling Ten Thousand A-Year (1841). 1856. 200 x 148 mm.; mount measures 297 x 248 mm.

The Philosophy of History, in a Course of Lectures, Delivered at Vienna by Von Schlegel, Frederick; Translated from the German with a Memoir of the Author by James Burton Robertson, Esq.

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Title: The Philosophy of History, in a Course of Lectures, Delivered at Vienna
Author: Von Schlegel, Frederick; Translated from the German with a Memoir of the Author by James Burton Robertson, Esq.
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Henry G. Bohn, 1852. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Sixth Revised Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xii, 498 pages. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Very Good, bound in contemporary polished calf, ornate gilt back, marbled end papers and edges, boards rubbed at edges, tissue guard detached but complete, interior clean, fresh and unmarked. Uncommon in attractive binding..

Du Bose Heyward: A Critical and Biographical Sketch by ALLEN, Hervey

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Title: Du Bose Heyward: A Critical and Biographical Sketch
Author: ALLEN, Hervey
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Description: New York, George H. Doran Company [1926].. First edition. Small 8vo. Original tan wrappers stamped in black with photo of Du Bose Heyward on the front cover. 19 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Zane Grey's copy with his estate blindstamp on the upper front cover.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.

The Diuturnal Theory Of The Earth: Or Nature's System of Constructing a Stratified Physical World by Andrews, William

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Title: The Diuturnal Theory Of The Earth: Or Nature's System of Constructing a Stratified Physical World
Author: Andrews, William
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: g
Description: New York: Myra Andrews, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. g. 8vo. xxiv, 552 pp. Red cloth binding w/out dj. Some age rubbing to edges. Spine edges frayed and bumped, spine sunned. Side and bottom edges untrimmed. Frontis. Former owner stamps to endpapers. Illustrated with two annotated maps printed on glossy paper. "A plain interpretation of the Diuturnal rotation of the earth, by means of which all geological stratifications have been laid down and the cause of all changes of surface level made known". Some light discoloration to edges of pages not effecting text. Else, in good+ condition.

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