GREENE, Graham.. A GUN FOR SALE. An Entertainment.. William Heinemann, London, 1936. Reprint., 1936.

Price: US$133.66 + shipping

Description: 8vo, 261pp. A good hardback copy with faded spine and binding canted. Small stain to rear board. Bookplate and previous owner's details stamped on front end paper.

Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia

Graham Greene. A Gun for Sale An Entertainment. William Heinemann, London, 1936.

Price: US$160.35 + shipping

Description: 8vo. 1936. 1st edition. Some foxing and old replacement end-papers otherwise tight in original slightly grubby and marked publishers' cloth with some loss of gilt lettering on spine. Images available on request.

Seller: Bath House Books, Ditchingham, United Kingdom

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). A Gun for Sale. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936, 1936.

Price: US$1019.80 + shipping

Description: [Thriller] First Edition. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[viii]; 261; [3], blank. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, red endpapers. Contents clean, no inscriptions, some sunning to spine and top edge, minor lean. A very good copy of one of the author's rarest titles in first edition, lacking only the ridiculously rare dust-wrapper, as usual. An underworld manhunt thriller which was published and filmed as 'A Gun For Hire' in America. The espionage novels of Graham Greene were read by Ian Fleming (some later being reviewed by him), and undoubtedly influenced his early James Bond adventures. Both authors had worked in Intelligence and became friends; Greene would holiday at Fleming's Goldeneye retreat in Jamaica in the 1950s. Gilbert, p.643.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

GREENE, Graham. A GUN FOR SALE An Entertainment.. Heinemann, 1936.

Price: US$1763.80 + shipping

Description: First edition. Original red boards with gilt titles. A near fine copy with some fading to the spine. One of Greene's scarcest novels, published in the UK a month after its US release in June 1936. William Plomer reviewed it in the Spectator, writing that Greene was indebted to his work as a film critic as this thriller "reads very much as a quick firing gangster film looks and sounds."

Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom