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Greene, Graham. Loser Takes All. William Heinemann Ltd, 1955.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards are worn and marked.There is a small scribble on the front end page.Tightly bound. Complete with 140 pages.08-10-2020. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Graham Greene. Loser Takes All. William Heinemann, London, 1955.
Price: US$9.63 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Foxing to edge of block occasionally intruding onto pages which are otherwise toned but generally clean and bright. No inscriptions. Blue boards with dulled gilt titling to front and spine, a little faded and lightly worn. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831).12mo. 140pp
Seller: Dodman Books, Morston, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham. Loser Takes All. William Heinemann, 1955.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Graham Greene. Loser Takes All. William Heinemann Ltd, 1955.
Price: US$10.02 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1955. First Edition. 140 pages. No dust jacket. First Published. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Pages are mildly foxed & tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding is firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Light sunning & crushing to spine & edges. Minor splits causing fraying to cloth at spine ends. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham. Loser Takes All. William Heinemann Ltd, 1955.
Price: US$10.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1955. 140 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Graham Greene. Loser Takes All. William Heinemann Ltd, 1955.
Price: US$10.71 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1955. First Edition. 140 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages. Minimal tanning to endpapers and page edges. Both hinges cracked, thus the boards are slack. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with small splits (approx. 1cm) to spine ends. Notable sunning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham. Loser Takes All. William Heinemann, London, 1955.
Price: US$12.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue, cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. First reprint in the same year as first publication. Minor wear and natural ageing, no inscriptions. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics.
Seller: Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA, HINDHEAD, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham.. LOSER TAKES ALL.. William Heinemann, 1955.
Price: US$16.86 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1955. William Heinemann. First. Hard Cover. Book- Good, gilt titles on front board and spine, blue boards, spine sunned. 7.5x5. 140pp.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
GREENE, GRAHAM. LOSER TAKES ALL. WILLIAM HEINEMANN, MELBOURNE, 1955.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: STATED FIRST PUBLICATION. BLUE BOARDS ARE LIGHTLY SCUFFED OTHERWISE GREAT COND. VERY SOLID. SUPER TIGHT BINDING. NO MARKINGS INSIDE. VERY CLEAN INSIDE. CRISP PAGES. HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE FIRST EDITION. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.
Seller: Come See Books Livres, Canton de Hatley, QC, Canada
GREENE, GRAHAM:. LOSER TAKES ALL. William Heinemann Melbourne 1955, 1955.
Price: US$18.64 + shipping
Description: first edition, blue cloth, 140pp, VG-(sl cocked, vsl edgewear, v sl rubbed, v sl sunned spine head & foot, sl soiled, lacks ffep, sl foxing to ep's & edges) d/w VG-(sl wear tears & creasing to extrems, sl chipped spine head & v sl spine foot, foxing, sl sunned rubbed & soiled)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Greene Graham.. LOSER TAKES ALL. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1955.
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 140pp. Blue cloth, gilt. A trifle sunned. No inscriptions Size: 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Graham Greene. Loser Takes All. William Heinemann, London, 1955.
Price: US$25.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NO JACKET. Hardback 1955. 1st UK edition. 19x12.5cm. 140 pages. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. No Jacket. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref ZRW
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Graham Greene. Loser takes all. William Heinemann, 1955.
Price: US$29.29 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. (literature, fiction, novel)
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
GRAHAM GREENE. LOSER TAKES ALL. WILLIAM HEINEMANN, LONDON, 1955.
Price: US$32.05 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: THE DUST JACKET IS HEAVILY RUBBED AND YELLOWED. THE CORNERS AND EDGES ARE SCUFFED AND TORN. THERE ARE TEARS ACROSS THE TOP AND BASE OF THE FRONT AND REAR JACKET. THE SPINE IS RUBBED. BOTH ENDS OF THE SPINE ARE SCUFFED AND TORN. THERE IS FOXING TO THE PAGE EDGES. THE BOARDS ARE IN FADED ALONG THE EDGES. THE PRICE IS UNCLIPPED. THERE IS A PENNED MARK TO THE FFEP. THERE IS SOME FOXING INSIDE. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.
Seller: Happyfish Books, Meopham, KENT, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham. Loser Takes All. London; William Heinemann Ltd, 1955., 1955.
Price: US$44.89 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [8], 3-140. Publishers navy cloth with gilt titles in border to spine and upper board, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Wear along edges of boards and to spine tips; free endpapers lightly toned at hinge from jacket; ownership inscription in ink to ffep; scattered very light foxing, mainly to prelims. Jacket lightly soiled to rear white panel, and nicked & creased to edge with small loss at spine tips and corners. A good copy in like jacket. Greene's novella of marriage,gambling and revenge, adapted for film in 1956 under the original title and as "Strike It Rich" in 1990.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham. Loser Takes All. Published by William Heinemann, London, 1955, 1955.
Price: US$48.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition/1st impression. Without inscription in not price clipped dust jacket, which is chipped and torn with minor loss but which is now protected by a removable transparent wrapper. More details/photos on request.
Seller: Mike Conry, WORCESTER, United Kingdom
GREENE Graham. LOSER TAKES ALL. William Heinemann, 1955.
Price: US$50.33 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO60121984: 1955. In-12. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 140 pages. Couverture partiellement et légèrement insolée. Pages de garde légèrement jaunies. Jaquette manquante. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
GREENE, GRAHAM;. Loser Takes All.. William Heinemann Ltd. 1955 1st edition, 1955.
Price: US$53.87 + shipping
Description: Blue cloth covers with gilt to front and spine. With original dustwrapper. Overall very good condition with good dustwrapper. (Dustwrapper corners & edges a little nicked, & small chip lower spine, a few small minor marks, Not Price clipped). Inside pages generally clean and tight. 140 pp.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham. Loser Takes All. William Heinemann, London, 1955.
Price: US$54.52 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. A clean, tight copy. Minor wear and tanning. Some chips to the jacket. First edition. 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. Loser Takes All. William Heinemann Ltd, 1955.
Price: US$66.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. A clean, tight copy. Light wear to the edges. Some chips to the jacket. First edition (1955). Clothbound in navy. 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
Price: US$74.40 + shipping
Description: Reprint (same year as First Edition). 8vo. blue cloth hardback, gilt titles to spine and upper board, in unclipped dust jacket featuring a b/w still from the 1956 film of the same name, featuring Glynis Johns and Rossano Brazzi. 140pp. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Slight fading to top of cloth spine. Dust jacket has some loss to top and base of spine, and small creases, chips and closed tears to edges. Spine slightly tanned with red lettering faded. (Shelf 2) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
Seller: Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB, Canterbury, United Kingdom
GREENE, Graham. Loser takes all. William Heinemann Ltd, 1955.
Price: US$76.96 + shipping
Description: 1st UK edition, in dark blue cloth with gilt. Text clean; binding tight; gilt rather dull. Dust jacket not price-clipped, but a little worn at edges, with small loss at head & foot of spine, & small old sellotape repairs; dj protected in removable clear film Used - Good. Good hardback in dust jacket
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
GREENE (Graham).. Loser takes all.. London William Heinemann Ltd 1955, 1955.
Price: US$87.91 + shipping
Description: in-12, cartonnage éditeur bleu, jaquette illustrée, 140 pp. Édition originale en belle condition (minime accroc au coin supérieur de la jaquette). Exemplaire provenant de la bibliothèque d'Alain Resnais.
Seller: Librairie Vignes Online, Paris, France
Greene,Graham. Loser Takes All.. William Heinemann Ltd,, 1955.
Price: US$88.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First published. 140pp. d.w. Dark blue cloth. d.w.foxing, partly stained, sl.torn, chipped at corners and spine. Bottom edge of spine sl.faded. Edges somewhat foxing and sl.spotted. E.ps.and pages sl.foxing. 19x13.2cm. [f0056-170055]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
GREENE, Graham. LOSER TAKE ALL: An Entertainment. London William Heinemann 1955, 1955.
Price: US$88.50 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION 8vo. dark blue cloth hardback with gilt titles to spine and upper board, in unclipped dust jacket. 140pp. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Dust jacket not price-clipped (7s6d net). Upper board a little soiled. Rear cover and flap of dust jacket have been internally reinforced with tape at top and base. Light soiling and some edgewear including small chips and tears. Overall VG in Good dust jacket. (Shelf 2) ** Pictures available upon request, if not already displayed here.** The shop is open 7 days a week. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
Seller: Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Graham Greene. Loser Takes All. William Heinemann London, 1955.
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The text block is square, tightly bound and firmly hinged. The slate blue of the cloth bound boards is even albeit with some very limited areas of wear along the top and bottom edges and at the corners. The name of a former owner (N.E. Cooper) is printed in ink on the ffep and a previous resale price is written there in pencil. The blue and yellow of the dust jacket remain strong and well defined and the original price (7s 6d NET) has not been cut off. A number of tears on the front, back and spine panels have been neatly and inconspicuously repaired. The publisher's contemporary promotional post card is loosely laid in.
Seller: Bekiaris Books, Reading, BERKS, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham. LOSER TAKES ALL. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1955.
Price: US$99.48 + shipping
Description: Pp. [vi]+140; dark blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, with publisher's device in blind on lower board, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly soiled and foxed, edges chipped and split, with closed tears at head of backstrip tape marked on reverse; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, upper hinge tender, the text block faintly browned, a little light foxing; WilliamHeinemann Ltd, London, 1955. First edition. Wobbe A34a.*Filmed twice: first in 1956, starring Glynis Johns and Robert Morley; then as Strike it Rich in 1990, starring Robert Lindsay and Molly Ringwald.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$109.03 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition hardback in original dustjacket , comes with the original Heinemann advertising postcard loosely inserted, Book has no inscriptions , no spine lean , no tears to pages , usual page toning with age , no offsetting to endpapers , no foxing , in jacket that is not faded , price-clipped flap , toned with age , no tears, minor wear to edges, not a remainder , not an ex-library copy. All orders are sent in quality inert removable dust jacket plastic, bubble-wrapped and in a strong box. We are a full time Independent bookseller established in 1999.
Seller: Alan White Fine Books, BRIGHTON, United Kingdom
Graham Greene. LOSER TAKES ALL. William Heinemann, 1955.
Price: US$114.51 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.73
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
GREENE, Graham. LOSER TAKES ALL. William Heinemann, 1955.
Price: US$115.44 + shipping
Description: Film Edition, with a still from the film on the dust jacket. Rare. Very good condition in good price clipped dust jacket. The dust jacket has several small pieces missing from the top of the spine, along with several tears.
Seller: Surrey Hills Books, Cranleigh, United Kingdom
GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). Loser Takes All. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1955, 1955.
Price: US$121.85 + shipping
Description: [Modern fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp [viii]; 140. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper drawn by 'Stevens'. Contents clean, no inscriptions, jacket with a little wear, chipped at crown and top corner of rear panel. Shows well. An entertaining romance, basis for two successful film adaptations; 'Loser Takes All' (1956) and 'Strike it Rich' (1990).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham. LOSER TAKES ALL. William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1955.
Price: US$143.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 140 pages. Pages good condition. Dark blue cloth, gilt title on spine and upper cover. Lightly faded at edges of lower cover, head/tail of spine and half top edge of upper cover.Lovely dust jacket illustrated in blue and yellow on upper cover. DJ not price clipped. Edges lighlty worn with small tears at top edges/corners and tail of spine. VG/GOOD+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Greene, Graham. LOSER TAKES ALL. William Heinemann (1955), London, 1955.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. "An entertainment." Touch of tanning to base of spine otherwise near fine in very good dust jacket with a few small chips and spine a little tanned.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. Loser Takes All. William Heinemann, 1955.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stated first publisher 1955.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Graham Greene. Loser Takes All. William Heinemann Ltd, 1955.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy In Like Jacket.7s6d on Flap. First Edition. Rare In Such Nice Condition. Comes With A Letter From Eric Idle (Monty Python) His Copy. Excellent Fresh Copy.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$574.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression of one of Greene's later "entertainments," with publisher's promotional card laid in. Small 8vo: [6],140pp. Publisher's blue cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, illustrated dust jacket priced 7s/6d. Near Fine or better (mild lightening to spine, offsetting from jacket flaps onto end papers); Fine jacket, fresh and bright. Wobbe A34a. Miller 34a. A novella featuring a Monte Carlo gambler who loses his money but wins back his wife. Greene was fascinated by gambling, not only on roulette but on the stock market as well. His interest in numbers even led him to collect automobile registration numbers (as does Bendrix in The End of the Affair). "But what is more important is that Loser Takes All is Greene's first published experiment with extended comedy. And the novel is an attempt to link comedy (especially satire, parody and burlesque) to the religious thriller." (Wobbe) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. LOSER TAKES ALL. William Heinemann Ltd [1955], Melbourne, London, Toronto, 1955.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. An engaged couple goes to Monte Carlo where the husband to be starts gambling to pay the hotel bill. Filmed twice, in 1956 and again in 1990 as Strike It Rich. Hubin, p. 349. A fine copy in a just about fine dust jacket with a little wear at the head of the spine panel with two very shallow chips. (28464)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Graham Greene. Loser Takes All. William Heinemann, London, 1955.
Price: US$763.19 + shipping
Description: The first edition of this humorous and amusing novella by Graham Greene. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.A 1955 novella by Graham Greene, which he humorously described as written to encourage 'adultery, the use of pyjama tops, or registry office weddings'. He continued 'nor is it meant to discourage gambling'.The work was twice adapted into film. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with fading to back strip. Light spotting to fore edge of text block. Dust wrapper exceptionally bright, with small loss of paper to back strip tail, and light marks to head of rear wrap. Tape removal mark to front flyleaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham. Loser Takes All. William Heinemann, London, 1955.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Clipped DJ in archival cover, light edge wear. Stated first published.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
GREENE, Graham.. Loser Takes All.. , 1955.
Price: US$6154.27 + shipping
Description: London: William Heinemann, 1955. 8vo., publisher's navy cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and front board, with decorative gilt border; publisher's device blindstamped to lower; in the unclipped dust jacket (7s 6d net), printed in yellow, blue and black; pp. [x], 3-140; boards slightly scuffed with some marginal sunning to extremities; a little dulled along the spine and with a light strip of sunning to the lower board; internally a lovely example, with some very faint spots to prelims; manuscript correction in later hand to p.81; the jacket vibrant and fresh, with only very slight shelfwear and some small nicks and closed tear; a very good to near-fine example. First edition, with a signed presentation inscription by Greene to Edward Sackville-West: "For Eddie - this complete abortion, but I'm so tired of Good + Evil. with love, Graham, Jan 30 1955" to the front free endpaper. The inscription refers to Greene's first published departure from his usual moralist themes to an experiment with comedy. Though Greene and Sackville-West missed each other at Oxford, their literary careers overlapped from the mid 1920s, and both converted to Catholicism. Sackville-West was one of very few whose literary opinion Greene respected. Loser Takes All is thus "an attempt to link comedy (especially satire, parody and burlesque) to the religious thriller" (Wobbe p.102.) In his dedication Greene said he had not written "this little story" to encourage "adultery, the use of pyjama tops, or registry office weddings. Nor is it meant to discourage gambling". A film based on the novella was made in 1956, starring Rossano Brazzi, Glynis Johns, and Hal Osmond.
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom