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Graham Greene – The Tenth Man – First UK Edition 1985
£30.00
First edition, first printing. Published by The Bodley Head in London, 1985. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper has handling marks throughout and is also toned, particularly at the spine. It has not been price clipped, showing the original £6.95 net price. The spine tips are slightly bumped. There is a sticker on the front pastedown from the previous vendor. The boards are near fine, slightly bumped at the corners and with some tape residue (which is also present on the verso of the jacket). The text blocks are immaculate throughout. There is a previous owner’s inscription to the front fly. This is a near fine copy.
In the introduction to the this edition of the novel, Greene states that he had forgotten about this story until receiving a letter about it from a stranger in 1983. Greene had first suggested it as an idea for a film script in 1937, set during the Spanish Civil War, and later developed it while under contract with MGM during the 1940s. Nothing came of it and the rights were offered for sale by MGM in 1983. The buyer (Anthony Blond) allowed Greene to revise and subsequently publish the work. Greene also writes of this novel that “I prefer it in many ways to The Third Man”.
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First edition, first printing. Published by The Bodley Head in London, 1985. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper has handling marks throughout and is also toned, particularly at the spine. It has not been price clipped, showing the original £6.95 net price. The spine tips are slightly bumped. There is a sticker on the front pastedown from the previous vendor. The boards are near fine, slightly bumped at the corners and with some tape residue (which is also present on the verso of the jacket). The text blocks are immaculate throughout. There is a previous owner’s inscription to the front fly. This is a near fine copy.
In the introduction to the this edition of the novel, Greene states that he had forgotten about this story until receiving a letter about it from a stranger in 1983. Greene had first suggested it as an idea for a film script in 1937, set during the Spanish Civil War, and later developed it while under contract with MGM during the 1940s. Nothing came of it and the rights were offered for sale by MGM in 1983. The buyer (Anthony Blond) allowed Greene to revise and subsequently publish the work. Greene also writes of this novel that “I prefer it in many ways to The Third Man”.
