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GREENE, GRAHAM. The Quiet American. 8vo, publisher's 1/4 cloth-backed boards, spine slightly faded, small scratches to front cover; dust jacket, spine panel faded with light wear to head and foot; rear hinge tender, small stain to top-edges. New York: Viking, 1956
first american edition, presentation copy, inscribed: "For Sylvia Salmi from Graham Greene." Salmi (her sticker on front pastedown) was a highly regarded photographer who did portraits of such literary figures as Wallace Stevens and Edmund Wilson. Beginning on p. 38 there are a series of marginal autograph notations, changing the British vernacular to its American equivalent (e.g. "You've got a bit of tail. I want a bit of tail too." edited to "piece of tail," etc.). These changes appear in future editions of the book, though who penned them is unknown. Wobbe A35b.
