Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Greene, Graham. WAYS OF ESCAPE. Lester & Orpen Dennys, Toronto, 1980.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first prnt. (Precedes the UK and US editions). Signed by Greene on the title page. Spine topedge with crease, beginning page toning. Near Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archivcal cover. Signed copies of this edition are not commonly available.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. Ways of Escape (Signed Limited Edition). Lester & Orpen Dennys, Toronto, 1980.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: #134 of 150 copies SIGNED by Greene on the limitation page. Beautiful copy, as new in green boards and green cloth slipcase, absent dw as issued. The author's second autobiographical volume.
Seller: Tom Davidson, Bookseller, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. Ways of Escape (Signed 1st edition). Lester & Orpen Dennys, Toronto, 1980.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: True first edition, published prior to the UK and US edition. From the library of noted author and bibliophile Greg Gatenby, founder and artistic director of the Harbourfront Book Festival in Toronto. Fine in fine dw, INSCRIBED by Greene to Gatenby on the front end paper, where Gatenby has added his signature and contemporaneous date atop the page. Beautiful association copy of Greene's second autobiographical undertaking!
Seller: Tom Davidson, Bookseller, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: #53 of 150 copies SIGNED by Greene on the limitation page. Fine in brown boards, absent dw as issued, in a matching fine brown slipcase. Reportedly only 20 or so copies were produced in this format, rather than the 150 called for, which belies this being #53! Regardless, a very scarce format for this second installment in Greene's autobiography.
Seller: Tom Davidson, Bookseller, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
GREENE, Graham.. WAYS OF ESCAPE. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Lester Orpen Dennys,, Toronto, 1980.
Price: US$1802.69 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. Original publisher's full brown leather lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. The first edition of the work, preceding all others -published in Canada, Copy number 1 of an edition of 150 (but in fact only 20 or fewer were leather bound, with the matching slip-case.) The remaining unbound sheets were later sold in green cloth. This copy is numbered 1 and comes with the publisher's original prospectus. Book and slip-case fine.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham. Ways of Escape. Lester & Orpen Dennys, Toronto, 1980.
Price: US$2249.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, precedes UK edition. Green/grey boards with silver spine lettering, in dust jacket. Corners and spine ends a little bumped, otherwise a very good copy in a price clipped dust jacket with a fade to the spine and a couple of folds in the rear jacket flap. This copy inscribed by Graham Greene to his Canadian publisher Malcolm Lester. Inscribed on the front endpaper, "For Malcolm Lester/ with good wishes,/Graham Greene"
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Greene, Graham. Ways of Escape. Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1980.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Copy number 8 of less than 20 copies leather bound and issued by the publisher at the time of publication. The rest were remaindered as unbound gatherings of signatures and later issued by a book dealer in a cheap green cloth. Signed by Greene. In publisher's slipcase. Fine condition book and slipcase. There was also an unsigned trade edition. This was the Canadian edition, preceding all others, including the US and UK editions.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.