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THE COLLECTED EDITION and COLLECTED ESSAYS. -- Inscribed by Greene. Volume 1, Brighton Rock; 2, It's a Battlefield; 3, England Made Me; 4, Our Man in Havana; 5, The Power and the Glory; 6, The Heart of the Matter; 7, The Confidential Agent; 8, Collected Stories; 9, A Gun for Sale; 10, The Ministry of Fear; 11, The Quiet American; 12, Stamboul Train; 13, The End of the Affair; 14; A Burnt-out Case; 15, The Man Within; 16, The Third Man and Loser Takes All; 17, The Comedians; 18, Journey without Maps; 19, The Lawless Roads; 20, Travels with my Aunt; 21, The Honorary Consul; 22, The Human Factor. Plus; The Collected Essays
by GREENE. GRAHAM
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William Heinemann and The Bodley Head. London. 1969 - 1982. 23 Volumes - Complete. FIRST EDITIONS and First printings of all volumes in this collected edition. --- Volume 1, Brighton Rock, is inscribed and signed by Graham Greene on the front free endpaper; - "For Doctor A. D. Thomson from Graham Greene." Publishers dark green cloth bindings with gilt ruling and lettering to the spines and grey endpapers. A fine set of books in very good dustwrappers, designed by Michael Harvey with some toning to the spines and a small amount of rubbing to extremities. Some volumes have a neat previous owner name on the front free endpaper and four of the wrappers nave been neatly price-clipped. A very good set with the added bonus of Greene's signature and inscription in Brighton Rock. Collected essays was issued in 1969, before the rest of the volumes, and is a little larger although the wrapper style is similar so it doesn't look out of place on the shelf with the set. ---- Greene wrote a new introduction to each of the volumes for this edition.
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- THE COLLECTED EDITION and COLLECTED ESSAYS. -- Inscribed by Greene. Volume 1, Brighton Rock; 2, It's a Battlefield; 3, England Made Me; 4, Our Man in Havana; 5, The Power and the Glory; 6, The Heart of the Matter; 7, The Confidential Agent; 8, Collected Stories; 9, A Gun for Sale; 10, The Ministry of Fear; 11, The Quiet American; 12, Stamboul Train; 13, The End of the Affair; 14; A Burnt-out Case; 15, The Man Within; 16, The Third Man and Loser Takes All; 17, The Comedians; 18, Journey without Maps; 19, The Lawless Roads; 20, Travels with my Aunt; 21, The Honorary Consul; 22, The Human Factor. Plus; The Collected Essays
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- GREENE. GRAHAM
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- First edition.
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- Hardcover
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- William Heinemann and The Bodley Head. London. 1969 - 1982
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- 1969
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