First edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Donald Green designed dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with the habitual toning to the paper-stock, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the original dustwrapper that is rubbed and nicked to the spine tips and fold corners and a little toned to the rear panel. The underside with a thin piece of strengthening tape at the top edge of the spine. Not price-clipped (15s net to the lower front flap).
An attractive example of Greene's 1958 black comedy, adapted (the following year) into the Carol Reed directed film, starring Alec Guinness in the role of vacuum cleaner salesman turned MI6 operative, James Wormald.
Stock code: 28514
£100