Category: finest kind

Farewell, My Lovely x 21

1940 Knopf hardcover

1940 Hammish Hamilton UK first edition

1943 Pocket reissue – cover art by H. L. Hoffman

1944 World Press tie-in

1964 Pocket reissue, 14th printing – cover art by Harvey Kidder (owner’s copy)

cover art by James Neil Boyle

1951 Pocket reissue, 10th print – cover art by Paul Kresse (owner’s copy)

1950 Penguin UK reissue, 3rd print

1966 Penguin reissue – cover design by Bob Brooks

1973 Penguin reissue – cover design by James Tormey

1973 Ballantine reissue – cover art by Tom Adams (owner’s copy)

1976 Vintage reissue – cover art by Richard Waldrep (owner’s copy)

1976 Ballantine movie tie-in

1976 Penguin movie tie-in

1988 Penguin reissue

1988 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

1989 (?) Vintage reissue

1994 Vintage/Black Lizard reissue

2002 Penguin UK reissue

2009 Penguin Classics UK reissue

2010 Vintage reissue

2011 Penguin UK reissue

[updated 3/3/26, 3/8/26]

United Artists, 1973

The Long Goodbye (United Artists, 1973). Very Fine+ on Linen. International One Sheet (27″ X 41″). Starring Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, David Arkin, Jim Bouton, Warren Berlinger, Rutanya Alda, David Carradine, Danny Goldman, Carl Gottlieb, George Wyner, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Directed by Robert Altman.

[Vic Fair artwork]

September 1932 issue ~ cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer

September 1932 issue

cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer

oil on board, 29.5 x 19.5 in.

better image than previously posted

~ Paul Cain, “The Dark”, ‘Kells & Granquist; part 5 of Fast One’, reprinted in The Complete Slayers (2011 Centipede Press), 7th of 17 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Black and White”, 46th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, 63th of 99 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “He Could Take It”, 9th of 15 stories with ‘tough dick Donahue of Interstate’, reprinted in Tough as Nails (2012, Altus), 41 of 67 stories in BM

~ William Rollins, Jr., “Triple-Cross”, 3rd of 4 stories with Percy (Buck) Warren, private eye, 16th of 23 stories in BM

~ Joseph T. Shaw, “Fugitive”, 2nd of 4 parts, ‘Jack Henderson, set in Far East, eg, Rangoon’, 7th of 9 works of fiction in BM

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Blue Murder”, ‘Don Free, private dick; 3rd and last DF story’, title used for earlier story in July ’28 issue, 58th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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