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CHANDLER, Raymond. The Long Good-Bye . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. 8 o. Original blue and green cloth; pictorial dust jacket (minor chipping to ends of spine panel and corners); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance Harry Ackermann (producer of Chandler's radio show "The adventures of Philip Marlowe," presentation inscription). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY inscribed" "To Harry Ackermann with my best wishes Raymond Chandler Jan (?) 22, 1954." "The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk in a Rolls Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers... You could tell by his eyes that he was plastered to the hairline, but otherwise he looked like any other nice young guy in a dinner jacket who had been spending too much money in a joint that exists for that purpose and for no other." This is the beginning of The Long Good-Bye Chandler's sixth novel and according to Anthony Burgess "perhaps the best of the Philip Marlowe series..." (Anthony Burgess 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 page 63); Bruccoli A10.1.a.