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Greene, Graham. The Lawless Roads: A Mexican Journey. Longmans, Green, London, 1939.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 306pp. Stated 1st published 1939. later state binding, with black lettering. on spine. Bit of foxing top edge. Clean, solid copy.
Seller: AardBooks, Fitzwilliam, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.21 + shipping
Description: [Travel] FIRST EDITION, second state cloth. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.306; [2]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine (first state has gilt titles), map endpapers. With ten black and white photographic illustrations to eight plates. Small repaired tear to edge of page 227, discreet ownership to flyleaf, and ownership stamp and inscription to half title. Edges a little toned/dusty. Cloth lightly handled and marked, more so to spine. A bright, attractive copy. Very good. Greene's second travel book, published as Another Mexico in the US.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
GREENE, Graham. The lawless roads: a Mexican journey. Longmans, Green, London, 1939.
Price: US$97.37 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, 2nd issue, with black lettering on spine. A few spots of foxing; binding tight; spine a little bumped & worn at head & foot Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Graham Greene. The Lawless Roads: A Mexican Journey. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1939.
Price: US$125.71 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition copy of Graham Greene's account of his travels through Mexico, which inspired his novel The Power and the Glory. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Ink inscription to the half title page, dated 1939. Boots resale sticker to front board is removable with care.Graham Greene (1904-1991) was one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. This is his account of his 1938 trip to Mexico, which also inspired his novel The Power and the Glory. His primary aim for the trip was to understand the experiences of the Mexican people, who were uprising against the government's anti-clerical purges and forced anti-Catholic secularization. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally generally smart, with darkening to the spine and extremities, and small losses to the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Label of Boots Booklovers Library to the front board, with ink crossing out. Ink mark to the bottom edge of the textblock. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with the odd spot. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham. The Lawless Roads_ A Mexican Journey. Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1939.
Price: US$137.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: red cloth gilt lettering no dust jacket 306 pp yellow/green map endpapers first edition first impression spine soiled small strip of gray paint or glue to bottom right corner of front cover tight and clean insterior Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. FIRST STATE, WITH GILT SPINE TITLES. 8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 306 pp. In original red cloth, gilt. Extremities worn and spine darkened, with small chips at head of spine. Occasional spotting, but otherwise a very good copy. Signature on title page and name written at head of Prologue. Illustrated by 8 pages of black and white photographic plates, including frontispiece. Map endpapers. First edition, first state of the early travel narrative, principally in the Mexican states, Tabasco and Chiapas, by the novelist, Graham Greene. The author was sponsored by his publisher to investigate the effects of forced anti-Catholic secularisation in the country. The journey also inspired his 1940 novel, The Power and the Glory. TRAVEL MEXICO TRAVEL AMERICAS CHURCH 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED TRAVEL
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham:. The Lawless Roads - A Mexican Journey.. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1939., 1939.
Price: US$418.92 + shipping
Description: First edition. Frontispiece, 9 other illustrations. Map of Mexico on both endpapers. Some very light foxing on prelims. Top edge yellow. Bright red cloth boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine slightly darkened. Overall condition VG+. No dust wrapper.
Seller: Owl Books, County Leitrim, Ireland
Greene, Graham. THE LAWLESS ROADS. Longmans, Green and Company, London, 1939.
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Greene, Graham. THE LAWLESS ROAD. London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1939. Greene's excellent account of his Mexican journey. First edition. Variant issue with white map of Mexico endpapers not Wobbe's yellow ep's. Second issue binding; red cloth stamped black at the spine, 8vo., 306pp. A very good or better copy in a very bright & fresh [generously] price-clipped dustwrapper with a bit of expert archival repair to a couple of small chips at the crown & heel of the spine and a small chip at the bottom of the front panel. An attractive copy. Wobbe A14.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
GREENE, Graham.. The Lawless Roads. A Mexican Journey.. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939, 1939.
Price: US$3848.28 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, rare first issue, of Greene's account of the travels that inspired The Power and the Glory (1940). Longmans financed his five month trip to Mexico in 1938, where he compiled notes on the continued persecution of the Catholic Church following the Cristero War (1926-1929). As a Catholic conservative, Greene's report is generally hostile, and he describes his "growing depression, almost pathological hatred. for Mexico". The persecution of the Church was particularly severe in Tabasco, and many of Greene's descriptions of the province appear in The Power and the Glory: from the sound of a revolver to the vultures in the sky. The principal characters of the novel also find antecedents in The Lawless Roads, including his protagonist, the whisky priest, but Douglas Veitch notes that "nowhere in The Power and the Glory is there any indication of the testiness and revulsion recorded in the journal" (p. 4). The spines of later issues were lettered in black, not gilt, and the map endpapers were printed on white paper instead of yellow. Brennan 13; Miller 18a. Douglas Veitch, Lawrence, Greene, and Lowry: the Fictional Landscape of Mexico, 1978. Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge yellow, map endpapers printed on yellow paper. With dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece and 7 photographic plates, reproduced from photographs taken by the author. Contemporary ownership inscription of one Anthony Jenkinson, Wentworth, on half-title. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped; spine panel lightly toned with tiny chips at head, a few nicks at edges, unclipped: near-fine in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom