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Graham Greene. In Search Of A Character. The Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$7.41 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Light wear to boards. Content is clean and has light toning. DJ with some edge wear, toning, tears and creasing

Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom

Greene, Graham. In Search of a Character; Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$7.50 + shipping

Description: pp. 123. Small 8vo. Part I: Congo Journal; Part II Convoy to West Africa. Light shelfwear, ink notation to rfep; very good- in price-clipped, very good- dustjacket.

Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

GRAHAM GREENE. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER - Two African Journals. THE BODLEY HEAD, GRAN BRETAÑA, 1961.

Price: US$7.50 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Two African Journals. Book in good conditions. 123 pp.

Seller: Gustavo I. Gonzalez, Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina

Greene, Graham. In Search of a Character: Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$8.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: S2 7

Seller: COVENANT HERITAGE LIBRIS, Saint John, NB, Canada

Greene, Graham. In Search of a Character; Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$10.00 + shipping

Description: pp. 123. 8vo. Bound in quarter orange cloth over marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine. Decorated endpapers. Light shelfwear, minor bump to top edge; else very good in good price-clipped dustjacket, showing small chips and tears along edges and spotting to front panel.

Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

GREENE Graham.. In search of a character. Two African journals.. 1961, 1961.

Price: US$10.08 + shipping

Description: London: Bodley Head 1961. Sm.8vo. Or.cl.backed boards. (124pp.). 1st ed.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

Greene, Graham. In Search of a Character: Two African Journals. The Bodley Head Ltd, 1961.

Price: US$11.05 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The Bodley Head Ltd 1961 first edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING

Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom

Graham Greene. In Search of a Character. The Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A very ngood clean 1st ed in a good but marked jacket.

Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

Graham Greene. In search of a character : two African journals. Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1961 Bodley Head first edition hardback; very good clean copy; with good unclipped dj with light edge wear; UK delaer, immediate dispatch

Seller: Simply Read Books, Boat Of Garten, United Kingdom

Graham Greene. IN SEARCH OF CHARACTER TWO AFRICAN JOURNALS. The Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$14.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Journals kept by the author which formed the basis for his novels "The Heart of Matter" and "The Burnt-Out Case". Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped and has a few small chips/tears around edges. A small patch of surface wear on front panel of jacket. Size: 12mo (7" to 7.5"). 123 pp.

Seller: Bibliodditiques, IOBA, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Graham Greene. In Search of a Character. the Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$15.16 + shipping

Description: First British Edition. Very good or better in like jacket. Red and green half-cloth with gilt tilting to spine and very minor scuff to back board near head. Minor edgewear to jacket with very minor sunning of the spine. Else, a tight and clean copy.

Seller: Biblioasis, Windsor, ON, Canada

GREENE, Graham. In search of a character: two African journals. The Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$16.25 + shipping

Description: 1st edition, in paper-covered boards with scarlet cloth spine; bright gilt on spine. Text bright & clean in firm binding; short tear in dust jacket at corner of front panel Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket

Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Greene, Graham.. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER: TWO AFRICAN JOURNALS.. The Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$18.52 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1961. The Bodley Head. Hard Cover. Book- VG. DJ- Good, spine sunned. 7.5x4.5. 123pp. Illus endpaper.

Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom

GREENE, Graham. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER: Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$19.49 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition. Good+ condition, small octavo, black boards, titles etc. in silver across spine, 123 pages. [QP]

Seller: Portman Rare Books, Tonbridge, United Kingdom

Greene, Graham. In Search of Character: Two African Journals. Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$22.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 1st Edition. Near Fine/ Very Good+. Price sticker residue to front of jacket. Price-clipped.

Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.

Greene, Graham. In Search of a Character: Two African Journals. Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$23.39 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover, first edition in not-price-clipped dust jacket. Light shelfwear to jacket and sunning to jacket spine. Foxing to page block and to jacket rear. Contents clean and spine tight. AD

Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom

Greene, Graham. In Search of a Character, Two African Journals. Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Description: A fine copy of the first UK edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 047618.

Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

GREENE, Graham.. In Search Of A Character: Two African Journals.. London, The Bodley Head 1961., 1961.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Hardcover. Fore-edge slightly foxed, bottom edge less so, ownership signature on verso of fly-leaf, o/w very good in like price-clipped dustjacket a little rubbed and lightly foxed.

Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia

Greene, Graham.. In Search of a Character: Two African Journals.. London: The Bodley Head, 1961., 1961.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Orignal mottled grey-green boards, with ochre cloth spine lettered in gilt; ink name on half-title. Light greenish-yellow dust jacket; lightly faded on spine, all lettering nice and sharp; steeply price-clipped. A near fine copy.

Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada

Graham Greene. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$32.49 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: This copy is in as new, unmarked condition quarter bound in terracotta cloth to marbled paper covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The publisher price clipped and repriced dust wrapper is typically lightly sunned to the spine but still in as new condition, it has been covered in clear, removable, protective film. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. In Search of A Character is a vivid portrait of Greene's Africa and provides a wonderful glimpse of the novelist responding to the raw material of his art. Two African notebooks record his travels in 1959, and his stay at the Yonda leper colony in the jungle which inspired the story for A Burnt-Out Case. Convoy to West Africa describes his voyage in a cargo boat during WW2, from Liverpool to Freetown, Sierra Leone, the setting for The Heart of the Matter. Ref QQQ 2

Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom

Greene, Graham. In search of a character - Two African journals. The Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$33.41 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 123 pag Size: 5R6

Seller: Von Meyenfeldt, Slaats & Sons, Breda, Netherlands

GREENE, Graham. In Search Of A Character: Two African Journals. Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Owner's name, and foxing on the foredge else near fine in slightly spine-sunned else near fine dustwrapper.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Greene, Graham. In Search of A Character. Bodley Head, UK, 1961.

Price: US$36.39 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A UK first edition, first impression. The Wrapper : The wrapper on this copy is clean and complete. It is unclipped. As is often the case with this title, the spine panel is toned. There is a suggestion of bruising to the spine ends. Looks sharp. The Book : The book is square and very tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. The boards are clean and unfaded, the corners sharp. The pages are clean. The closed page edges are fresh. No foxing. No dog-eared pages. The binding is tight - no cracked hinges. A decent copy in a protected wrapper. Paypal accepted.

Seller: Cheltenham Rare Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

GRAHAM GREENE. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER - Two African Journals. BODLEY HEAD, LONDON, 1961.

Price: US$37.69 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 1st/1st. SOUND BINDING NO INSCRIPTIONS, EXCELLENT ORDER THROUGHOUT. ONE BOOK, TWO JACKETS, (NO IDEA WHY) ONE HAS A FEW MARKS, THE OTHER SLIGHTLY FADED WITH A TANNED SPINE. PLEASE SEE PHOTOGRAPHS.

Seller: WESSEX, GREAT TORRINGTON, DEVON, United Kingdom

Greene, Graham. In Search of a Character: Two African Journals. Bodley Head London 1961, 1961.

Price: US$38.00 + shipping

Description: 1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy small octavo 123pp., Nice clean copy in like price-clipped dust jacket

Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

GREENE, Graham.. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER: TWO AFRICAN JOURNALS.. The Bodley Head,, London,, 1961.

Price: US$38.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 123. Original publisher's quarter red cloth lettered gilt at spine over grey boards. Fine in very good indeed dust jacket. Not price-clipped and no inscriptions.

Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom

Greene, Graham. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER. The Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$38.99 + shipping

Description: 123pp. Red cloth spine with boards. D.j. complete with a couple of minor closed nicks to the edges. Facsimile manuscript end-papers. No inscriptions and unclipped [10/6d] Size: 8vo

Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom

Greene Graham. In Search Of A Character: Two African Journals.. The Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$49.47 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. Olive green boards, red quarter binding. Gilt titles to the spine. Very Good+, with a sound binding, clean & unmarked pages. Decorative endpapers. The DJ is unclipped and in Good+ condition. A small sticker scar to the front cover, spine browning. "In Search of A Character is a vivid portrait of Greene's Africa and provides a wonderful glimpse of the novelist responding to the raw material of his art. Two African notebooks record his travels in 1959, and his stay at the Yonda leper colony in the jungle which inspired the story for A Burnt-Out Case. Convoy to West Africa describes his voyage in a cargo boat during WW2, from Liverpool to Freetown, Sierra Leone, the setting for The Heart of the Matter." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 123 pages

Seller: BYTOWN BOOKERY, Vars, ON, Canada

Greene, Graham. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER: TWO AFRICAN JOURNALS. The Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, 123 pages; VG/VG; yellow spine with black lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; minor shelfwear and rubbing to the jacket; marked soiling to the jacket, particularly to the spine; slight creasing to the head and tail of the spine; price sticker from publisher on the front jacket flap '£2.50'; top edge of the text block is dyed green; slight soiling to the edges of the text block; bookplate of collector Rolland Comstock on front paste down; shelved in Travel. 1357327. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Greene, Graham. In Search of a Character: Two African Journals. Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Fine in fresh, unclipped dustjacket (mylar-protected). A lovely copy.

Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada

Greene, Graham. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER; TWO AFRICAN JOURNALS. The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1961.

Price: US$57.50 + shipping

Description: 123 pp. Green endpapers. Quarter orange cloth with gilt titles. Yellow DJ with red and black titles. Not price-clipped. Small mark from previous bookseller's price-sticker, yellowed spine. Near Fine/VG+

Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada

GREENE, Graham.. In Search of a Character. Two African Journals.. , 1961.

Price: US$58.48 + shipping

Description: 123pp The Bodley Head, London, 1961. Near fine copy with near fine DW, not price clipped

Seller: Anthony C. Hall, Bookseller ABA ILAB, Isleworth, MIDDX, United Kingdom

Graham Greene. In Search of a Character: Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$58.48 + shipping

Description: Paperback. Yellow card wraps with black titling to spine and upper panel along with illustration of a man, tree and a deer. 123pp. Size: 8vo Crown (7½" x 5") || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #116763|| Condition: Good+. Card wraps faded at spine and top edges, a little rubbed with some fraying. Internally bright and clean.

Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom

GREENE Graham. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER Two African Journals. The Bodley Head Ltd, London ,, 1961.

Price: US$62.38 + shipping

Description: Hb in Dw 123pp A Fine/Fine Copy

Seller: E.J Morten Booksellers BA, MANCHESTER, United Kingdom

GREENE Graham. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER TWO AFRICAN JOURNALS. The Bodley Head, London W2,, 1961.

Price: US$62.38 + shipping

Description: Hb in Dw 123pp A FINE/FINE Copy

Seller: E.J Morten Booksellers BA, MANCHESTER, United Kingdom

Greene, Graham. In Search of Character, Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, Ltd., London, 1961.

Price: US$62.64 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Olive green boards with a wrinkled paper effect, tomato red quarter binding. Endpapers are a facsimile of Mr. Green's cursive writing on a olive green background. Previous owner's name sticker on upper right ffep. Text is pristine. Yellowish green dust jacket with red title, horizontal black lines and black title. Upper right corner has the residue of a previous price sticker. Spine has slightly darkened with age. This book is in lovely condition. Any picture found beside this listing may NOT actually be a picture of this book but a stock photo used by the listing site. 3 R's Used Books and Hannelore Headley Old & Fine Books, Inc. are committed to saving the trees one leaf at a time.

Seller: 3 R's Used Books/Hannelore Headley Old &, Port Robinson, ON, Canada

Graham Greene. In Search Of A Character - Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: In Search Of A Character: Two African Journals, Graham Greene, The Bodley Head, 1961, First Edition, First Impression Two African notebooks records the author's travels in 1959. One of the journals consists of notes for his novel "The Burnt-Out Case" and although the other journal did not result in a work of fiction, it records the details of a convoy to West Africa during the Second World War. A First Edition, First Impression in fine condition. The binding is straight and tight, the boards clean and the lettering on the spine bright. The end papers and pages are free from tears and inscriptions. The top edge retains its original green n tint. There is some foxing to the fore and bottom edges. The unclipped dust jacket, protected in a clear, removable cover is in near fine condition with a slightly darkened spine. Will be dispatched carefully wrapped in bubblewrap and in a cardboard box.

Seller: Grimes Hill Book Club, Wythall, United Kingdom

Graham Greene. In search of character. The Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Bookin very fine condition cover is price clipped so only near fine. 1st/1st

Seller: P J MCALEER, BELFAST, United Kingdom

Greene, Graham. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER - TWO AFRICAN JOURNALS. The Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$69.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Hardcover; 8vo; 123 pp. Pages clean, v/g condition. Green endpapers illustrated with white facsimiles of journal pages. Red cloth spine and brown boards. Gold dust jacket with red and black titles. Edges very lightly worn. FINE/FINE

Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Greene, Graham. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER - TWO AFRICAN JOURNALS. Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$69.60 + shipping

Description: IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER - TWO AFRICAN JOURNALS, Bodley Head, 1961, first edition, fine in like dust-wrapper.

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). In Search of a Character. Two African Journals. London: The Bodley Head, 1961, 1961.

Price: US$71.48 + shipping

Description: [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.123 [1]. Publisher's red quarter cloth, with green paper-covered boards and gilt titles to spine. Top edge tinted green, and green decorated endpapers. With the light green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 10/6 to front flap. Previous owner's signature in blue ink on title page else fine in a near fine wrapper with some toning to spine. Fine. Greene set two of his novels in Africa,"A Burnt-Out Case" (Yonda leper colony) and "The Heart of the Matter" (the Congo). They arose from separate visits during which he kept journals, and provide a glimpse of the novelist responding to the raw material of his art.

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

Greene, Graham. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER: Two African Journals. The Bodley Head (1961), London, 1961.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Fine in near fine slightly spine-toned dust jacket with small, light stain on rear panel.

Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.

Greene, Graham.. In Search of a Character. Two African Journals.. The Bodley Head Ltd, London, 1961.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Impression. A Fine copy in a Fine jacket, not price-clipped. 123pp. Clean and unmarked. Q15223

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

GREENE, Graham. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER Two African Journals. London: The Bodley Head., 1961.

Price: US$90.97 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing. Publisher's original paper covered boards with gilt titled red cloth spine, in dustwrapper. A lovely fine copy, the contents without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper. Not price-clipped (10s 6d net to the front flap). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom

Greene, Graham. In Search of a Character: Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 123 pages. First English edition, first printing. His notes on his trips to West Africa in 1941 ans The Belgian Congo in 1958. His thoughts here were the basis for his two African novels, The Heart of the Matter and A Burnt-Out Case. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!

Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.

Greene, Graham. In Search of a Character. The Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The Bodley Head - London 1961. 16mo 123pp - first printing in yellow wraps with The Bodly Head emblem printed on the front cover. Also printed "Advanced Unbound Copy" (since this copy is soft bound) on the bottom of the copyright page. First printing and bound in Greta Britain for T.B.H. by by W. Clowes & Sons. Bound in elephantine boards with Linson spine.

Seller: MCTbooks, Sandy, UT, U.S.A.

GREENE, Graham.. In Search of A Character. Two African Journals.. London: The Bodley Head, 1961, 1961.

Price: US$97.47 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression. Miller 41a. Octavo. Original orange cloth-backed green marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge green, green patterned endpapers. With dust jacket. Spine panel of jacket faded, faint marks at folds, unclipped: a fine copy in near-fine jacket.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

GREENE, Graham. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER Two African Journals. London: The Bodley Head., 1961.

Price: US$97.47 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing. Original olive elephant-hide paper-covered boards, quarter-bound in orange cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers reproducing the author's manuscript. Top edge green. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean and without inscriptions or stamps. In the fine dustwrapper. Not price-clipped, re-priced (£2.50 net) with the publisher's label covering the original price. A very attractive copy. "These two journals, one preceding 'A Burnt-Out Case' and the other 'The Heart of the Matter' [.] may be of interest as an indication of the kind of raw material a novelist stores" (from the jacket). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom

GREENE, Graham.. In Search of a Character - Two African Journals.. The Bodley Head, London., 1961.

Price: US$97.47 + shipping

Description: First edition. Octavo. 123 pages. Cloth-backed boards. Journals kept while in the Congo and Sierra Leone. Slight bump to tail of spine, otherwise fine in near-fine dustwrapper.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom

GREENE, Graham. In Search of a Character: Two African Journals. Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 123pp. Slim 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. London: Bodley Head, (1961). First Edition. Fine.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Graham Greene. In search of an character (advanced unbound proof copy). Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description:

Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands

GREENE, Graham. In Search of a Character: Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$110.00 + shipping

Description: First Impression. Octavo; 3/4 olive paper over boards, quarterbound in orange cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; green topstain; dustjacket; 123pp. Topstain slighlty faded, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

Greene, Graham. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER. The Bodley Head and Anthony Blond, London, 1961.

Price: US$110.00 + shipping

Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. True First Edition. First UK Edition. A fine fresh copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Based on his trips to West Africa in 1941 & The Belgian Congo 1958. An interesting companion volume to Greene's two African novels, The Heart of the Matter & A Burnt-Out Case. R.A Wobbe; Graham Greene: A Bibliography - Guide to Research, A42.

Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada

GRAHAM GREENE 1ST EDITION 1961. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER. Two African Journals. BODLEY HEAD, LONDON, 1961.

Price: US$110.46 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: THE BOOK IS VERY CLEAN AND TIDY WITH ALL PAGES CRISP AND CLEAN WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A SMALL BROWN STAIN (about a quarter in square) TO THE FRONT TOP OF THE CONTENTS PAGE OTHERWISE IT IS SPOTLESS AND FREE FROM ANY INSCRIPTIONS. THE DUST JACKET IS VERY CLEAN WITH VERY LIGHT FADING TO THE SPINE WITH VERY, VERY MINOR CLOSED TEAR ( ONE SIXTEENTH OF AN INCH) TO THE TOP OF THE SPINE. OTHERWISE IT IS COMPLETE AND NOT PRICE CLIPPED. A VERY NICE COPY INDEED

Seller: Sydney Charles Books, SURREY, United Kingdom

Greene, Graham. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER - TWO AFRICAN JOURNALS. The Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$115.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 123 pages. Pages clean, v/g condition. Green endpapers illustrated with white facsimiles of journal pages. Red cloth spine and brown boards. Gold dust jacket with red and black titles. Edges very lightly worn. VG+/VG

Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Graham Greene. In Search of a Character: Two African Journals. ( Advance Unbound Copy). Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$116.96 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Pre-First Edition. Advance Unbound Copy of the First Edition, with text identical in all respects to the published copies with the exception of the cover. Sent out to reviewers prior to publication date. Near Fine in original,clean, printed yellow card wrappers with book title in black on spine. The only defect is that the spine is slightly sunned. Front cover with black woodcut of a man in Jacobean costume, a stag and a tree with a wreath hanging from it , together with the book title, 'In Search of a Character', the words 'Advance Unbound Copy",and 'The Bodley Head, London' printed in black lettering. No author's name on spine or cover. Issued prior to publication for reviews. No writing, underlining or inscriptions. A very nice copy indeed.

Seller: Barracks Books, Nash, United Kingdom

Graham Greene. In Search of a Character Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$123.46 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: An almost pristine first edition of Graham Greene's travel journals written during his time spent researching in Africa. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.Two travel journals penned by Graham Greene whilst travelling in Africa. Whilst travelling on these journeys Greene researched his two novels set in Africa, 'A Burnt-Out Case', and 'The Heart of the Matter'.Greene was one of the most popular authors of the twentieth century, known for his works 'Brighton Rock', 'The End of the Affair' and 'Our Man in Havana'.Letter loosely inserted. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, fine. A couple of spots to the fore edge. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Dustwrapper is lightly edgeworn with some spots and discolouration. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Graham Greene. In Search of a Character: Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$127.36 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A smart first edition of this part travel book, part journal, from English writer Graham Greene. First edition. Part travel book, part novelist's journal, this work contains the writings the author kept on journeys made while researching his two novels set in Africa: A Burnt-Out Case, set in the Belgian Congo, and The Heart of the Matter, set in Sierra Leone. Written by Henry Graham Greene, an English writer and journalist regarded as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. In the original quarter red cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, excellent. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is very smart with light shelf wear and minor sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

GREENE, Graham.. In Search of a Character. Two African Journals.. London The Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$151.25 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression; original red cloth-backed green boards, titles to spine gilt, green topstain, illustrated endpapers, with the dust jacket. An exceptional copy in the price-clipped dust jacket with a trace of fade at the spine. greene

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

Greene, Graham. In Search of a Character, Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: The book condition is Fine. The dust jacket is Fine. First British edition. The true first, 1st printing 0.0

Seller: Bella Luna Books, Castle Rock, CO, U.S.A.

Greene, Graham. In Search of a Character: Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Stated First published. Quarter bound in red cloth with grey papered boards in a decorative dustjacket. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, tiny closed tear.

Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.

Greene, Graham. In Search of A Character. London The Bodley Head 1961, 1961.

Price: US$292.40 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing. Published by The Bodley Head in London, 1961. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust wrapper, plainly designed and displaying the titles, is printed on thick yellow paper. The top right-hand corner is marked and there are sparse closed tears at both edges. It has been price clipped. It is beautifully bound in quarter red cloth and marbled paper with gilt titling fresh at the spine. The text blocks are foxed. There is a birthday inscription to the verso of the front fly in blue ink. It is free of subsequent inscriptions and is, overall, in very good (or better) condition. Greene's journals, created while producing two novels set in Africa: A Burnt-Out Case, set in the Belgian Congo, and The Heart of the Matter, set in Sierra Leone.

Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom

GREENE, Graham.. In Search of a Character: Two African Journals.. London: Bodley Head (1961)., 1961.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: 123 pp. Light foxing to fore-edge, else near fine in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Greene to one recipient, whose name he has then crossed out, and re-inscribed, "For XXXXXX / David Posner / from Graham Greene."

Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Greene, Graham. In Search of a Character. Two African Journals (Signed 1st edition). The Bodley Head, London, 1961.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: In gathering research for two novels set in Africa ( A Burnt-Out Case and The Heart of the Matter) Greene kept two journals that were never intended for publication, but appear here in print for the first time. The book is nearly fine with a light touch of fading to the red spine; the near fine dw is lightly soiled on the spine, with a 1 and 1/2 inch cut on the front panel neatly repaired with conservators tape on the verso. Greene has briefly INSCRIBED the book on the title page.

Seller: Tom Davidson, Bookseller, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.

GREENE, Graham. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$1949.32 + shipping

Description: First edition. Quarter bound in red cloth with grey papered boards in a decorative dustwrapper. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the title page, "For Moura with love from Graham" A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed to Baroness Moura Budberg, Ukraine-born socialite and double agent for Russia and Britain during the WW1 who was imprisoned in 1918 under suspicion of spying for the British. She was briefly H.G. Wells' mistress and came to live in England in 1933. Possibly through Wells or through his own links with the European intelligence services, Greene was helped by Budberg to gather information for his 1934 trip to the Baltic states. The pair struck up a long sustained friendship and met and corresponded thereafter.

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

GREENE, Graham. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, 1961.

Price: US$1949.32 + shipping

Description: First edition. Quarter red cloth with grey papered boards in a decorative dustwrapper. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the title page, "For Harold Rubinstein from Graham Greene". A fine copy in a very near fine dustwrapper, slightly faded to the spine. Harold Rubinstein was Graham Greene's solicitor whose firm of Rubinstein, Nash & Co. specialised in defending publishers and authors and acted for Greene between 1946 and 1985. Rubinstein notably came to Greene's aid in acting as an intermediary and confidant when, in 1953, the Vatican wrote to the Archbishop of Westminster to recommend that Greene's novel, The Power And The Glory not be allowed to be reprinted or further translated until passages regarding Catholicism were changed. The two journals of the title are the authors Congo Journal and his Convoy to West Africa.

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