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
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, NY, 1950.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1950 The Viking Press True First/First which preceded the UK edition. In VG condition/no DJ. There is a small dime-size abrasion on the front boards and bumps at the corners.There is a bookstore stamp on the ffep and the front & rear end leaves are glued to the inside boards.
Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
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 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. 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 Third Man. Viking Press, 1950.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: DJ in archival cover ware to corners. March 1950. Owner name.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham.. The Third Man.. New York, Viking Press, 1950., 1950.
Price: US$2734.87 + 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.