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Greene, Graham. Carving a Statue: A Play. The Bodley Head, 1964.
Price: US$7.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 82 pages, smaller book. Ex-university library book, light discoloring and wear; a sound binding; good shape. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; Inventory No: 208922.
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham.. Carving a Statue. A Play.. The Bodley Head, London, 1964., 1964.
Price: US$12.05 + shipping
Description: Hardback, 12x19cm, 82pp. Good condition (owner's penned name at ffep; small label remnant at front pastedown) in good dustwrapper (general light wear; faded spine; lightly chipped edges; several 0.5-1cm tears; clipped front flap).
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Greene, Graham. Carving a Statue. The Bodley Head Ltd, London, 1964.
Price: US$23.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The boards have only very slight edge wear. Browning to the page edges with scattered spotting to the fore edges. The pages are slightly browned but otherwise unmarked. The jacket has a one inch closed tear at the bottom edge of the front panel with some associated creasing and two half inch closed tears to the top edge. Two small closed tears at the top of the rear panel with some chipping to the top left corner. The spine is a little faded with some edge rubbing and a little chipping at the top. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$33.06 + shipping
Description: 8°. 19 x 12 cm. 82 Seiten. Original-Leinenband mit Original-Schutzumschlag und rotem Kopfschnitt. Erste Ausgabe. Englischsprachige Ausgabe. Schutzumschlag mit minimalen Randläsuren. Namensstempel auf vorderem Innendeckel, kleiner Zifferneintrag auf hinterem Innendeckel. Gutes bis sehr gutes Exemplar. First edition. English language edition. Original cloth binding with red upper edge and dust jacket. Dust jacket with just slight marginal blemishes. Name seal on inner cover, small number inscription on inner cover at the back. Nearly fine copy. Sprache: deutsch.
Seller: Antiquariat Lenzen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Graham Greene. Carving A Statue. The Bodley Head, 1964.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st UK edition.Hardbound in dust jacket. Label of Graham Greene's literary agent Monica McCall placed over a peeled-off previous name label on front free end page. Minor wear to dust jacket, otherwise very good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. Carving a Statue. The Bodley Head, London, 1964.
Price: US$71.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, pp. 82, unclipped dust jacket with faede spine but othewrwise bright, a very small tear at the head of the spine on back cover, interior with some mild foxing to end papers and fore edge, otherwise crisp and clean, binding tight. An attractive copy.
Seller: Charles Vivian Art & Antiques, Rosscarbery, CORK, Ireland
GREENE, Graham.. Carving a Statue - A Play.. The Bodley Head, London., 1964.
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 82 pages. Two page introduction "Epitaph for a Play" by the author.Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a hint of rubbing to the edges.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
GREENE, Graham. Carving a Statue [FIRST EDITION]. Bodley Head, London, 1964.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Red stained top edge. 82 pp. Minor scuffing to jacket edges and a 3/4" closed tear on rear jacket cover. Scuffing along jacket spine. Price clipped. Book is fine. This is an uncommon first edition of Greene's allegorical play.
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. Carving a Statue. The Bodley Head, London, 1964.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear. Previous owners name on ffep. Stated first published.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
GREENE, Graham. CARVING A STATUE. London : Bodley Head, 1964.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Impression. Top corners very lightly bumped, otherwise an excellent copy in a bright dust jacket.
Seller: Surrey Hills Books, Cranleigh, United Kingdom
Graham Greene. Carving A Statue. London: The Bodley Head, 1964.
Price: US$1127.35 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Inscribed in ink by author to half title page. Near fine copy. DJ price is unclipped. Book comes protected in mylar cover.
Seller: The Scribe Bookstore, ABAC, Toronto, ON, Canada
GREENE, Graham.. Carving a Statue. A Play.. London: The Bodley Head, 1964, 1964.
Price: US$1604.08 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title "For Philip Stafford [sic] with all good wishes for 1965 from Graham Greene". An excellent association: the recipient, Philip Stratford, was an academic at the University of Montreal, who wrote a number of books on Greene, and later befriended him. Stratford first met Greene by chance in Paris in the early 1950s, where he was staying while writing a PhD thesis on Greene and François Mauriac, later published as Faith and Fiction: Creative Process in Greene and Mauriac (1964), which led to renewed academic interest in Greene's writing in North America. They met again in 1970, when Greene asked Stratford to select a number of extracts from his prose for The Portable Graham Greene (1972). While Stratford was editing the volume, he moved to Antibes, on the French Riviera, where Greene had relocated in 1966. There, they drank martinis together at Restaurant Felix, and Stratford and his wife often hosted Greene for dinner. After the Stratfords moved back to Montreal, they were regular visitors to Greene at Antibes, and remained friends with the author until his death in 1991. Carving a Statue was first produced by Peter Wood in September 1965. Greene later wrote of the play that "Never before have I known a play like this one so tormenting to write or so fatiguing in production. At the age of sixty there is no reason to work, except to earn a living or to have 'fun'. This play was never fun and I earn my living in another field" (Greene, Collected Plays, p. 211). The three-act play received less than glowing reviews, prompting the author to include a two-page "epitaph" in the front of the book, which was published subsequent to the production. Miller 46. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge red, red endpapers. With dust jacket. Spine of jacket very slightly faded, a few marks to rear panel: a fine copy in near-fine dust jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom