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Graham Greene. Rumour at Nightfall. Heinemann, 1931.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Rumour at Nightfall" by Graham Greene. London: Heinemann, 1931 first UK edition first issue. Book in original publisher's binding, with preliminary and rear leaves spotted, small ownership stamp to head of preliminary leaves, upper hinge cracked, original red cloth gilt, blind design to upper cover, some wear to head of joints, lightly marked. Greene's third novel, which he prevented being reprinted
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Greene, Graham. RUMOUR AT NIGHTFALL. William Heinemann, London, 1931.
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover; small 8vo; 300 pages. FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. Scarce. Red cloth hardcovers with gilt lettering on spine. Blind decoration on front and blind windmill stamp on back. Light edgewear. Prev. owner's name on inscription on ffep in pen. Hinges loosely bound. Lightly foxed fore-edge, and half-title/title pages. The other pages are yellowing but still bright and clean. No dj, but with a clear plastic wrap. VG/--
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
GREENE, Graham.. Rumour at Nightfall.. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1931, 1931.
Price: US$1539.31 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, star design to front board blind stamped Spine slightly rolled and faded, boards a little rubbed and marked, bump to lower corner, some spotting to edges. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
GREENE, Graham. Rumour at Nightfall. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1931.
Price: US$1980.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression, one of 1,200 copies. Octavo (19cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and decorative elements embossed onto front cover; [viii],300pp. Spine ends gently nudged, with a faint suggestion of foxing to a few preliminary and terminal leaves, else remarkably clean throughout; Near Fine, with the cloth quite even in color, and without the usual heavy wear. Lacking the rare dustjacket. An attractive copy of Greene's third novel, set toward the end of the First Carlist War. Unlike his first novel, Rumour at Nightfall was a critical and commercial failure, which Greene blamed on the influence of Joseph Conrad on his writing. "My second and third novels, The Name of Action and Rumour at Nightfall.can now be found, I am glad to think, only in secondhand bookshops at an exaggerated price, since some years after their publication I suppressed them. Both books are of a badness beyond the powers of criticism properly to evoke - the prose flat and stilted and in the case of Rumour at Nightfall, pretentious (the young writer had obviously been reading again and alas! admiring Conrad's worst novel, The Arrow of Gold), the characterization nonexistent" (Ways of Escape: An Autobiography, p.19). WOBBE A4a.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
GREENE, Graham.. Rumour at Nightfall.. Heinemann, London., 1931.
Price: US$22448.33 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 300. The author's third novel which, like his second The Name of Action, proved to be a failure artistically and commercially. After the publication of the American edition in 1932 he never allowed the book to be reprinted. Very good in the very scarce dustwrapper which is rubbed, torn and defective, albeit 90% present. The extensive tears have been sympathetically repaired on the reverse.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom