THE QUIET AMERICAN

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. Top edge blue. A very good copy, the binding square and firm. The contents, with a gift inscription in blue ink on the front endpaper are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and spotted dustwrapper that has a couple of short closed tears and some darkening to the rear panel. Not price-clipped (13s 6d net to the front flap).

One of Greene's best known novels, twice adapted for film; the first in 1958 directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and starring Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave and Giorgia Moll; the second, a more faithful adaptation in 2002 directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser and Do Thi Hai Yen.