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Greene, Graham. The Confidential Agent. Viking Press, 1939.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First US edition. Pages unmarked. Covers moderately worn. No jacket. Base of spine bumped. Binding square & firm.
Seller: Books Do Furnish A Room, Durham, NC, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. The Confidential Agent. The Viking Press, 1939.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Grey cloth with black lettering, black cover illustration. Spine darkened, mild general soil. Tips of corners bumped. Previous owner inscription to front pastedown. Text is otherwise clean and bright no marks.
Seller: Gyre & Gimble, Holden, ME, U.S.A.
Graham Greene. The Confidential Agent. The Viking Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$1195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American Edition. First Printing. "Published in September 1939". 302 pages. Various wear to dust jacket, including a few short tears at folds, wear at tips and top/bottom of spine. Not price-clipped. $2.00 price still evident at top of front flap. Dust jacket now protected in mylar. Lightest wear only to volume. Original cloth. Yellow top edge, as issued. Text block square and in very good condition. Light tanning to endpapers near gutters. No signatures. No marking to text. Rare.
Seller: A Book By Its Cover, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. THE CONFIDENTIAL AGENT an Entertainment. The Viking Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$1437.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover; 8vo; 302 pages. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Grey cloth hardcovers with black titles on spine. Black and orange decoration of a mysterious man on front. Rubbed and soiled edges. Both boards lightly soiled. Bumped corners, with some exposed board at tail-edge corners. Yellow on top, other edges yellowing. Bookseller stamp on ffep and bfep. The pages are yellowing but still bright and clean. With the jacket, illustrated. Sunned spine, slightly yellowing overall. Chipped/bumped at head/tail edges of spine. Rubbed edges. NPC, shows $2.00 on flap. In a clear mylar jacket. G/G+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Graham Greene. The Confidential Agent (First Edition). Viking Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Basis for the 1945 espionage film directed by Herman Shumlin, and starring Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall and Peter Lorre. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Slight lean, with light soiling to the spine, and residue from sticker removal on the front endpapers. Jacket with corresponding residue to the verso of the front panel, light edgewear, and light toning to the spine.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. THE CONFIDENTIAL AGENT. The Viking Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); powder gray cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in black and orange on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [8],302pp. Spine ends gently nudge, vintage booksellers ticket to lower rear pastedown, else very Near Fine, with the topstain bright and unfaded. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), showing some trivial wear along spine ends and front flap fold, with a tiny tear to upper corner of rear flap fold; bright, unfaded, and very Near Fine. A stunning copy of one of Greene's early "entertainments," basis for Herman Shumlin's 1945 film noir starring Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, and Peter Lorre. Wobbe A15.b; Hubin, p.175; The Dark Page, Vol.1, pp.120-121.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.