The Human Factor
by Greene, Graham
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good 1st edition, with unclipped d/j, black boards, silver spine titling. Text block firm, untrimmed pages unmarked and bri
- ISBN 10
- 0671240854
- ISBN 13
- 9780671240851
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978. 1st USA. hardback. Very good 1st edition, with unclipped d/j, black boards, silver spine titling. Text block firm, untrimmed pages unmarked and bright.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The world of the Secret Service normally be expected to be the subject of a thriller. Greene has made it the background of a perceptive and compassionate novel. For an officer of the service espionage can be only a part of life. Life is also the private relation to which he returns in the evening, the dangerous human factor of the title.
Synopsis
Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and was later employed by the Foreign Office. He died in April 1991.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC132341
- Title
- The Human Factor
- Author
- Greene, Graham
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good 1st edition, with unclipped d/j, black boards, silver spine titling. Text block firm, untrimmed pages unmarked and bri
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st USA
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0671240854
- ISBN 13
- 9780671240851
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Pages
- 243
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, espionage, Greene
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.37 g
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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