Feb 20, 2020 - Sale 2530

Sale 2530 - Lot 263

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
GREENE, GRAHAM. The Quiet American. 8vo, publisher's cream wrappers printed in red, few soft creases; publisher's slip signed by Sales Manager and dated 7 October 1955 laid in; custom chemise and 1/4 leather folding box (scuffed, unevenly faded). advance uncorrected proof. Wobbe A35. London: Heinemann, (1956) [but 1955]

Additional Details

with-Another copy. 8vo, publisher's cloth; dust jacket, spine panel toned with splits along folds, scattered soiling. First edition, second printing, Inscribed "For Anne Slayton - I'm so glad Peter [Glenville] introduced us - from Graham Greene Jan. 26, 1955. Albany, Piccadilly, London w.1." London, (1955).