Brighton Rock

The First UK printing published by Heinemann, London in 1938. The BOOK is in very Good++ or better condition and remains a very bright copy. Just a hint of fading and toning to the publisher's original red cloth. The gilt titling remains bright. Slight pushing at the spine tips. The usually encountered (due to the quality of the paper stock used) toning to the text-block, which is more irregular to the upper text-block. Toning to the end-papers and extreme pages. Free from inscriptions and erasures with the neat bookplate of the noted bibliophile H. Bradley Martin to the front pastedown. Protected in a loose Mylar archival cover and housed in a custom solander box, with red velvet inserts, gilt titling and a red silk tie. No wrapper. Originally published in the USA as 'Brighton Rock, An Entertainment', one month prior to the UK edition. Brighton Rock is Greene's 'most successful attempt to create a work that is as fast-paced as a thriller and as complex as a more leisurely character study' (ODNB). Miller 17b. Memorably adapted in 1947 as a British gangster film noir directed by John Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough as the violent gang leader Pinkie Brown. A very nice example and increasingly elusive with such attributes. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.