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THE LAST GOOD KISS.

Crumley, James.

NY: Random House, 1978. Octavo, quarter cloth with boards. First edition. Signed by Crumley on the title page. The author's third novel and first C. W. Sughrue. "...[Crumley's] principal setting is the bleak magnificence of western Montana and his prevailing mood a wacked out post-Vietnam empathy with all sorts of dopers, losers, and loonies, the human wreckage of the institutionalized butchery we call the real world." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 262-263. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 176-177. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (16572). Item #16572

Price: $150.00