Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Greene, Graham. Nineteen Stories. New York: Viking Press, 1949.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Feb 1949 (3rd printing). Good HC, Poor DJ. Blue cloth over boards black letters. Sunned along edges; light fraying at head of spine; slight age darkening on end papers; owner name on front free end paper. DJ is complete, in 3 pieces; scuffed/soiled; chips along edges. 12mo, 247 pp.
Seller: Lee Madden, Book Dealer, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Greene Graham. Nineteen stories. The Viking Press, New York, 1949.
Price: US$16.57 + shipping
Description: In-8°, pp. (8), 247, legatura editoriale t. tela azzurra con titolo in nero al piatto e al dorso. Sovraccoperta figurata a più colori disegnata da Edgar Cirlin. Ottimo stato. Prima edizione in raccolta.
Seller: LIBRERIA ANTIQUARIA PIEMONTESE, TORINO, Italy
Graham Greene. NINETEEN STORIES BY GRAHAM GREENE. The Viking Press, New York, 1949.
Price: US$18.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 247p. A blue cloth hardcover book in good+ condition. Spine sunned and front cover heavily scuffed. Seminary library stamp on title page; otherwise clean and tight. 19 short stories by the popular Catholic author.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. Nineteen Stories. The Viking Press, New York, 1949.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good hardcover with no dust jacket.
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. 19 Stories. The Viking Press, New York, 1949.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth with blue lettering. Edgewear and rubbing, tips of corners rubbed. Faint uneven soil to boards. Previous owner signature to front endpaper. Text is otherwise clean and bright, no marks. Unclipped DJ with $2.75 price shows rubbing to all edges, creases, chips and tears, still looks lovely in clean mylar cover. "Here in nineteen stories is Greene's concern for the essential tragedy of man, his characterstic brilliance in describing the scene, his genius for suspense, his sympathetic treatement of his characters - whether they be saints or sinners." (from the jacket)
Seller: Gyre & Gimble, Holden, ME, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. Nineteen Stories by Graham Greene. The Viking Press, New York, 1949.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [solid copy, corners lightly bumped, a couple of tiny dents in top edge of front cover; jacket is edgeworn, small closed tear at bottom of front panel, a bit of paper loss at top of spine, small tears at rear corners]. "Here is [Greene's] concern for the essential tragedy of man, his characteristic brilliance in describing the scene, his genius for suspense, his sympathetic treatment of his characters -- whether they be saints or sinners." (Greene himself, in a brief introduction, is less high-falutin', asserting that he's presenting these short stories (in a form that he had "never properly practised") "merely as the by-product's of a novelist's career." The first story in the volume, "The Basement Room," was the basis for the 1948 film THE FALLEN IDOL (identified in the book jacket blurb as "The Eyewitness," possibly an intended American release title?); another, "Across the Bridge," was filmed under that title in 1957 and again in 2001 as DOUBLE TAKE.
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. NINETEEN STORIES. The Viking Press, New York, 1949.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Jacket has some light wear over an immaculate book. With $2.75 price on flap.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. Nineteen Stories [1st]. Viking Press, 1949.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dust jacket has a few small edge tears, light rubbing, 1/16-inch chipping at extremities of spine, now protected by clear mylar sleeve. Book has light fading at extremities of blue cloth covers and spine. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. . Nineteen short stories by a 20th century master. A solid, attractive copy of the first American printing. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 247 pages. B1
Seller: Sweet Beagle Books, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. Nineteen Stories (19 Stories). Viking Press, 1949.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Light foxing on ffep. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, chips. Third Printing.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. Nineteen Stories (19 Stories). Viking, New York, 1949.
Price: US$127.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A genuine American first edition/first printing, with 'Published by The Viking Press in February 1949' (and no later edition stated) on the copyright page. Some wear to edges of jacket (but no tears or nicks or repairs), and small chips to some corners. A little foxing to end papers. Slight fading to spine of jacket, but the blue and black boards beneath are clean and smooth. Overall, a very nice copy, not price-clipped and with no inscriptions, ex-library stamps or remainder marks. All of our books are protected by a removable plastic cover, and sent to you with care.
Seller: bluemanbooks, Ludlow, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham. Nineteen Stories (19 Stories). Viking Press, 1949.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIrst Edition, First Printing. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. Nineteen Stories. Viking Press, 1949.
Price: US$290.00 + shipping
Description: NINETEEN STORIES, Viking, 1949, first American edition, upper corner tips ever so gently bumped, else just about fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Only 3,500 copies printed.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
GREENE, Graham. Nineteen Stories. Viking Press, New York, 1949.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Signed by Greene at tipped in front free end paper as issued by publisher. No dustjacket. A Near Fine copy with spine moderately faded, thin strip faded at top rear cover, bit of foxing to signed endpaper.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
GREENE, Graham. Nineteen Stories. Viking Press, New York, 1949.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Spine and edges of the boards slightly faded, one corner roughly bumped, very good lacking the dustwrapper. Signed by the author on a tipped-in front fly, apparently an issue used by the publisher in promotion.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.