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Graham Greene. THE THIRD MAN. The Viking Press, New York, 1950.

Price: US$57.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Previous owner's name stamped on rear endpapers. A "Crippled Children" sticker on rear endpaper. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Light wear at head/tail of spine. Size: Sm 8vo (7.5" to 8"). 157 pp.

Seller: Bibliodditiques, IOBA, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Greene, Graham. THE THIRD MAN ( 3rd ) The story for the motion picture by Graham Greene. The Viking Press, New York, 1950.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1st edition thus, 1950. A Good book in a Fair dust jacket. Small 8vo., 157 pp. Bound in publishers red and grey cloth with orange dust jacket. Jacket is unclipped showing $2 price. Dust jacket has overall chipping and small tears along edges, tips and spine. Spine is very sun faded. Interior is clean with some general overall age toning. Dust jacket is now protected in mylar sleeve. The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Set in postwar Vienna, the film centers on American Holly Martins (Cotten), who arrives in the city to accept a job with his friend Harry Lime (Welles), only to learn that Lime has died. Viewing his death as suspicious, Martins elects to stay in Vienna and investigate the matter. The Third Man is considered one of the greatest films of all time, celebrated for its acting, musical score and atmospheric cinematography. - Wiki.

Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.

Greene, Graham. THE 3RD (Third) MAN. The Viking Press, New York, 1950.

Price: US$74.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 157 pp. Quarter-bound in red on gray boards; gray upper edge. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks and tears around edges; some fading on the spine; no interior markings. Size: 8vo

Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada

Greene, Graham. The Third Man. The Viking Press, New York, 1950.

Price: US$120.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Very minor wear on edges. This is a tight clean copy. Subtle tanning. No d-j.

Seller: Encanto Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

Greene, Graham. The Third Man. Viking, New York, 1950.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: First American Edition. Story for Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles movie. Suspense and action in post-war Vienna. Red cloth and boards stamped in black. Top page edges stained blue grey. Tight. Tape stains on cover and endpapers in usual places where acetate jacket is taped to book. Tape has been removed. Flyleaf and rear free endpapers stamped with previous owner's name and address. 1" x 3" glue stain on back free endpaper. Dust jacket red is faded at spine. Very good/ Very good + condition.

Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.

Greene, Graham. The Third Man. Viking Press, New York, 1950.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo. 7 5/8 x 5" (19.5 x 13cm). 157 pgs. VG+. Red cloth titled spine and charcoal cloth covered boards. VG DJ unclipped with $2.00 price intact. The red paper DJ has a faded spine and partially faded front cover. Prior owners name and date of May 1950 inside front cover. Alittle light spotting on the endpapers. The true first edition. Fascinating preface by Greene explains how this story came to be. It was developed by him as a screenplay to be directed by Carol Reed and was made into the classic film of the same name with Orson Wells and Joseph Cotton. The story is a bit different than the film.

Seller: Carl Blomgren Fine Books ABAA, petaluma, CA, U.S.A.

Greene, Graham. The Third Man. The Viking Press, New York, 1950.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. (Precedes the British edition.) 157 pp. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with red backstrip lettered in black. Very Good with bumped corners, former owner's name on front free endpaper, rubbing to edges of cloth, small stain on half title page. In Good price-clipped dust jacket with closed tear to front panel, sunned spine panel, split starting along spine/ back panel fold, light soiling and edge wear. Greene's novelization of his own screenplay for the 1949 film noir directed by Carol Reed.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

GREENE, Graham. The Third Man. Viking, New York, 1950.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, preceding the UK edition. Light foxing on page edges, boards moderately edgeworn with slightly cocked binding, very good in a soiled and edgeworn, good only dust jacket with loss at the spine ends (affecting one letter), and a sunned spine with interior tape repairs. Greene wrote the story and novelization specifically so that he could then write the screenplay for the marvelous *film noir* classic with Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Greene, Graham. THE THIRD MAN. The Viking Press, New York, 1950.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. Source for the film noir directed by Carol Reed starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles. Greene wrote the story specifically to frame the film and had originally not intended it to be published. Hubin, p. 349. Mild wear to the spine ends, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with shelf wear to the corner tips and spine ends, small 14 mm closed tear to the lower front panel, rubbing to spine folds, closed tear to lower rear spine fold edge with tape repair to the verso, slight fade to orange background color of spine panel, mild damp stain to upper right front corner. (24655)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.

Greene, Graham. THE 3RD [THIRD] MAN. Viking, 1950.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Greene, Graham. The 3rd Man. New York: Viking, 1950. First American Edition. A Near Fine copy, virtually unworn with one tiny cloth wrinkle to one corner of the spine. Its original priced ($2.00) dust jacket is in better-than-Very Good condition, the spine panel is virtually just as orange in color as that of the front panel, highly desirable thus as the spine is faded on most copies. There is some minor rubbing and some light soil to the back panel. No repair whatsoever. After the Oscar-nominated film noir THE THIRD MAN was completed in 1949, Greene himself accomplished this novella based on his own screenplay. Unlike the British First Edition which includes a second unrelated novella, the U. S. publication is devoted entirely to this film, directed by Carol Reed, and co-starring Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles. THE THIRD MAN is generally considered on the one best movies ever made by the British Film Industry and while this edition isn't exceedingly scarce, it is rarely seen in such nice collector's condition.

Seller: Lakin & Marley Rare Books ABAA, Mill Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Greene, Graham.. The Third Man.. New York, Viking Press, 1950., 1950.

Price: US$2784.30 + shipping

Description: 8vo. 157 pp., final blank page. Contemporary full gray cloth backed in red cloth with black stamped spine-title. With original printed dust jacket. First edition. In the preface Greene states that "'The Third Man' was never written to be read but only to be seen." Indeed, the novella was written as something of a screen treatment, a precursor to the screenplay he would ultimately write for the film adaptation, and not published until after the movie premiered. The 1949 film was directed by Carol Reed and starred Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Garnering three Academy Award nominations and winning for Best Cinematography, the film is considered "a bona fide classic" (Maltin) and was voted the greatest British film of all time in the British Film Institute's 1999 survey. - Stamp of ownership of Kenneth D. Shimmin to pastedown. Minor edgewear, foot of spine lightly scuffed, edges lightly toned. Internally clean and tight, all edges trimmed, text block edges slightly toned. Dust jacket unclipped, minor edgewear, somewhat sunned, small tear to front spine fold (7 mm). A good copy. - Miller 26a.

Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria

Greene, Graham. The Third Man. Viking, New York, 1950.

Price: US$3000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A near fine first edition (the US is the true first edition, preceding the first UK) in a near fine dust jacket, INSCRIBED by Greene to Ralph Sylvester and Stathis Orphanos, publishers of three fine press signed limited books by Greene. Advance review copy with review slip laid in. Housed in a custom-made collector's cloth slipcase.

Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.