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GREENE, Graham (Henry Graham), 1904-1991 : IT’S A BATTLEFIELD. London : William Heinemann, (1934). First edition. Greene’s first overtly political novel – “the injustice of man’s justice”. Greene called it “a panoramic novel of London” – in some sense an inversion of the traditional detective story, as a communist London bus-driver awaits his hanging. £400 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39622 – or simply click on the button
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GREENE, Graham (Henry Graham), 1904-1991 : THE MINISTRY OF FEAR : AN ENTERTAINMENT. London : William Heinemann, (1943). First edition. Greene’s powerful evocation of London in the blitz – a spy thriller full of guilt, menace and deceit. Informed by his work at the Ministry of Information – and turned into the 1944 Fritz Lang film noir, with Ray Milland and Marjorie Reynolds. £400 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44191 – or simply click on the button
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GREENE, Graham (Henry Graham), 1904-1991 : THE QUIET AMERICAN. London : William Heinemann, (1955). First edition. “I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused”. Western involvement in Indo-China – twice filmed, with Audie Murphy and Michael Redgrave in 1958, and with Brendan Fraser and Michael Caine in 2002 – the book which made Greene a CIA suspect for the remainder of his life. SOLD |
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GREENE, Graham (Henry Graham), 1904-1991 : A SORT OF LIFE. London : Bodley Head, (1971). First edition. An illuminating segment of autobiography, taking Greene’s life past his first encounter with espionage and up to his first genuine success with the publication of “Stamboul Train” in 1932 — complete with the changes in the text made off the cuff from a telephone box to ward off a threatened libel action from J. B. Priestley. “I have tried, however unsuccessfully, to live again the follies and sentimentalities and exaggerations of the distant time, and to feel them, as I felt them then, without irony”. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44921 — or simply click on the button
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