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New York: The Viking Press, 1969. First US Edition Thus/Fifteenth Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. A later Viking Compass Edition. In nice orange cloth with black type. Unfortunate red marker streak down front page ends, otherwise clean with sharp corners and tight binding. Jacket is unclipped ($5.00) with 2 1/2 by 1 3/4 inch chip to bottom of rear panel… Read more about this item

First Edition. (Sydney, Australia: The Invincible Press n.d. circa 1945). First Australian Edition, First Issue. A softcover production with stiff printed stapled wrappers (not issued with a D/W). Usual page tanning due to the poor quality of paper used and rubbing to the sides of the spine and with a hint of loss at the head and… Read more about this item

Berlin: Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1948. 1st Edition . Very Good/Very Good. 5 x 7.75 inches (12.5 x 19.5 cm). Dust jacket: Very scarce original jacket. Browning to paper. Slight wear to ends of spine. Light stain to outer edge of front cover. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: First German edition.… Read more about this item

This novel is generally regarded as Greene most famous. He was a prolific writer, and only the story The Third Man is perhaps more famous, simply because of the movie. This copy is very good minus. The binding is sound and is generally clean except for a previous owners name to the ffep, The book block is yellowed as is the… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1938. First US Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fair/N/A. In salmon and black cloth with silver foil type and design motif. Top page ends tinted black. Some spots of rubbing through cloth at spine ends, corners, top front edge of front board and bottom of rear board. Tanning to spine, page ends and endpapers and some… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1938. Here the probing is carried further in a brilliant and uncompromising indictment of some of the worst aspects of modern civilization, showing us the hard-boiled criminal mind not as a return to savagery but as a horrible perversion of cerebration" (The New York Times). It is the basis for the 1947 film directed… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1938. A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1938. A very good book without inscriptions with a touch of spotting to the top edge and a pin hole to side of the spine. A touch of spotting to the spine - a very nice copy indeed of this rare book.

New York: The Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing; precedes the British edition by one month. Bound in publisher's red and black cloth with silver stamping and black topstain. About Fine, with softening to bottom edge of spine, with vivid topstain and sharp stamping. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket designed… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good,/Very Good,. A neat attractive copy. Octavo in fawn cloth with gilt lettering to spine, 310 pages. A volume of The Collected Edition reissues of Graham Greene's work. A few small light tape marks to boards, all else neat and clean. The protagonist Pinky Pinkie,is a boy gangster in pre-war… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1938. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, production-used copy of Linnit and Dunfee. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[4]; 361; [1]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Linnit and Dunfee ownership stamp to flyleaf. Previous owner's name in black ink to flyleaf and dated 1940, toning to end-papers and edges of textblock, pen mark to bottom of… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Bantam Books, Inc., 1949. MMPB. Good+. First Thus She was a waitress. He was a killer – and she knew it. He married her to shut her up! ** Murder mystery set in a glitzy resort town, Bantam 315. Laminate peeling on back and spine. Some bending and rolling of corners. Red dyed page… Read more about this item

Vintage Classics, 2004-10-06. paperback. Good. 5x1x8. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

UK: Heinemann, 1938. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1938. Michael Sadliers book. Book is very good++ and very bright. Gilt very bright. Pages slightly age toned and endpapers darkened. Contents good. A very nice example and very rare in this condition. More images can be taken… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1938., 1938. First edition. First edition. The U. S. edition precedes the U. K. edition. Original red cloth with black and silver band at the top, cloth lightly rubbed else near fine tight copy in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners, extremities rubbed, rear pastedown sheet lightly toned, small… Read more about this item

Viking, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($2.50 price intact). Published by Viking, 1938. Octavo. Salmon and black cloth boards stamped in silver with black topstain. Book is very good with no writing or names. Has a spine lean and some toning/darkening to endpapers. Dust jacket is very good with… Read more about this item

New York, NY The Viking Press: Compass Books, 1956. Paperback First Edition Thus (1956), Fourteenth Printing (1968). Eighteen pages scattered througout the text show ink UNDERLINING AND MARGINALIA. Else, Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of careful use: the backstrip shows a couple of tape reinforcements at the head and heel; light wear to the extremities with mild… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1938. First edition of Greene's chilling expose of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. An exceptional example. Here the probing is carried further in a brilliant and uncompromising indictment of some of the worst aspects of modern… Read more about this item

Sydney: The Invincible Press, 1945. Paperback. Very Good. Sydney, The Invincible Press, [circa 1945] (first Australian edition)/ 1938. Octavo, 176 pages plus the printed covers (with the publisher's advertisements on both sides of the rear cover). Flush-cut card covers (stapled through the inner margins) lightly rubbed, with a short split to the foot of the front joint; text… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1938. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Bookplate on front fly, rear hinge cracked with a slightly cocked binding, boards edgeworn and stained, good only. The basis for several adaptations including the 1948 film adaptation, directed by John Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough.