brighton rock di graham greene

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Descrizione: The Viking Press, New York, 1938. First American edition, preceding the British edition by one month of Greene's chilling expose of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Richard Graham Greene." Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket design by George Salter. Housed in a custom clamshell box. First editions signed and inscribed are scarce "Here the probing is carried further in a brilliant and uncompromising indictment of some of the worst aspects of modern civilization, showing us the hard-boiled criminal mind not as a return to savagery but as a horrible perversion of cerebration" (The New York Times). It is the basis for the 1947 film directed by John Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough as gang leader Pinkie Brown and the 2010 film, which stars Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Serkis, John Hurt, Sean Harris and Dame Helen Mirren. Codice articolo 98352

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Descrizione: London: William Heinemann and The Bodley Head, 1970-82, 1970. 22 volumes, octavo. Attractively bound in recent full green morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, single rule to boards gilt, cream endpapers, top edges gilt. Contents clean, spines a touch faded, some minor marks to boards and a few corners bumped. Overall a very good set. First collected edition; each volume contains a new introduction by the author. His skilful way of using tales of adventure and suspense to explore moral issues in political contexts has made Graham Greene one of the most widely read novelist of the 20th century, and many of his books have been made into successful films. Codice articolo 127679

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Descrizione: Heinemann. London, 1947. Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two volumes. First impressions from the Uniform Edition, both copies dedicated and signed by Greene in black ink, both copies dedicated to Sussex author Geoffrey Cotterell. Both dedications dated March 1947. However, on 'A Gun for Sale' Greene has clearly prepared the dedication in advance, leaving a space for the name of the recipient into which Cotterell's name has been inserted, written in blue ink. 'Brighton Rock' bears a contemporaneous inscription to Cotterell in black ink, uniformly executed. Both copies may be regarded as artefacts of the many months of work that Greene undertook prior to the filming of Brighton Rock in the summer of 1947. The Boulting Brothers began shooting on location in Brighton in June during the hottest summer on record. However, Greene had been travelling from London to Brighton since January to write and reconnoitre, but perhaps more importantly to build relationships and goodwill. His novel had angered many in Brighton, who thought it damaging for tourism and for trade; in 1938 the Brighton Gazette had described the novel as being: "A gross libel on Brighton which gives a totally wrong and damaging impression of the place and its public officials." That sentiment persisted post-war. If Boulting's unit was to film on location, goodwill and co-operation was essential: roads would need to be closed, permits and permissions obtained, so in the early months of 1947 Greene and others sought to build the relationships, co-operation and goodwill necessary for the project to succeed. The first two titles of the Uniform Edition had been recently published and it's likely that Greene prepared signed and dated copies such as this example of 'A Gun for Sale', leaving room for the name of the recipient to be entered into the dedication as required. These two volumes are testament to that endeavour. Collett's London booksellers label to the front pastedown on both volumes. Very good condition, backstrips sunned, dustwrappers slightly edge-worn and faded, otherwise no faults. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo 2965

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Descrizione: The Viking Press, New York, 1938. FIRST EDITION. Precedes the British edition. Some browning/ foxing to pastedowns. Cloth fresh and bright. Otherwise a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket but for some very minor restoration of tiny chips at spine ends. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Codice articolo 29480

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Descrizione: Viking, 1938. FIRST EDITION, pp. [viii], 358, 8vo, original salmon pink cloth with black cloth around head, separated by two horizontal silver rules on upper board, backstrip lettered in silver with slight lean to spine, top edge black, dustjacket very bright with backstrip panel sunned and a tiny chip at head of lower joint-fold, a nick at foot of rear panel and some very light dust-soiling to the same, very good. Published a month ahead of the UK edition, in June 1938 - this is a very well-preserved copy. (Wobbe A13b). Codice articolo 59161

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Descrizione: Nov. 18, 1939. green headed paper, signed in black ink, with stamp of receipt at foot dated 20/11/39, p. [1], crown 8vo, original fold, very good condition. A short note, to the Broadway producer Gilbert Miller, but a significant one in terms of offering a record of the author's taste in contemporary drama, and his wishes in respect of his breakout novel: 'I feel it would be well worth considering Patrick Hamilton as a dramatist for Brighton Rock. You remember Rope and Gas Light? He can put real horror into a play, knows how to get realistic atmosphere, and could manage the good-and-evil theme very well'. In the event, Miller's production employed Walter Kerr and Leo Brady to adapt the work; when the Boulting brothers made the British film version in 1947, the screenplay was undertaken by Greene himself alongside Terence Rattigan, but Greene's admiration for Hamilton's work endured - he called 'West Pier' 'the best novel written about Brighton', modestly disregarding his own contender for the accolade. (Plus VAT in the EU). Codice articolo 65863

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Descrizione: London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1938, 1938. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, black endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US earlier the same year. Codice articolo 48052

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Descrizione: The Viking Press, New York., 1938. First edition, preceding the U.K. edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 358.Ownership signature on front pastedown. Endpapers tanned. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper a bit darkened at the spine, rubbed and nicked at the edges and with faint traces of repair at head of spine. Codice articolo GREENEGR004699

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Descrizione: The Viking Press, 1938. Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition.The U. S. edition precedes the UK edition. Original red cloth with black and silver band at the top, cloth lightly rubbed else near fine tight copy in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners, small closed tear to front bottom, front endpaper lightly toned. Included is a book token signed by Greene simply 'Graham' given to Nora Carleton Greene. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo 104

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Descrizione: Viking Press, New York, 1938. Gilt Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. George Salter (illustratore). 1st Edition. a near fine copy in the original red and black cloth lettered in silver in the Salter pictorial dust jacket, tiny chips to dj else fine, a near fine copy, tight and bright the cloth. The American 1st edition precedes the British first of this title and is rarer. Also the basis of a fine feature film. The dust jacket is pretty and under mylar brodart. a Pretty copy. Size: 8vo. Hard Cover. Codice articolo 1001400

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Descrizione: London William Heinemann Ltd, 1938. First U. K. edition. 8vo., 361pp., usual age-toning to paper, otherwise fine, modern full red morocco with navy blue lettering pieces gilt, navy blue endpapers and all edges gilt, fine. Codice articolo 94525

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Descrizione: Heinemann, London, 1938. First edition of Greene's chilling expos'e of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. An exceptional example. "Here the probing is carried further in a brilliant and uncompromising indictment of some of the worst aspects of modern civilization, showing us the hard-boiled criminal mind not as a return to savagery but as a horrible perversion of cerebration" (The New York Times). It is the basis for the 1947 film directed by John Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough as gang leader Pinkie Brown and the 2010 film, which stars Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Serkis, John Hurt, Sean Harris and Dame Helen Mirren. Codice articolo 7206

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Descrizione: Heinemann, UK, 1938. Cloth. Condizione: Very Good ++. First Edition. 1st Edition 1938. Michael Sadliers book. Book is very good++ and very bright. Gilt very bright. Pages slightly age toned and endpaers darkened. Contents good. A very nice example and very rare in this condition. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 14651 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Codice articolo 017750

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Descrizione: Heinemann, London UK, 1938. Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene. First edition. Heinemann, London 1938 A very good condition copy of the classic novel, Brighton Rock. Original red cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. The covers are rubbed and spine is lightly darkened. Spine ends are bumped with tiny tear on the spine ends. Few tiny white spots on the spine. The contents are toned. Two sellotape marks on the paste downs. 1cm tear on lower edge of page 27. Hinges tight. 8vo. 361 pp. Codice articolo 000637

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Descrizione: London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1938, 1938. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles gilt to spine, publisher's device in blind to rear cover. Spine gently rolled, very slight wear to extremities, covers lightly soiled, top edge dust toned, foxing to book block edges, prelims, margins, and endmatter, short closed nicks to bottom and fore edges of pp. 9-10; a very good copy. First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US as Brighton Rock, An Entertainment, one month prior to the UK edition. Brighton Rock is Greene's "most successful attempt to create a work that is as fast-paced as a thriller and as complex as a more leisurely character study" (ODNB). Miller 17b. Codice articolo 121477

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Descrizione: London William Heinemann Ltd, 1938. First U. K. edition, 8vo. 361pp., endpapers browned, light spotting to title, publisher's cloth, spine slightly discoloured, spine ends and corners a little bumped, light marking to covers, otherwise very good and internally near-fine. Codice articolo 97810

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Descrizione: Viking Press, New York, 1938. Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. First Edition. Salmon and black cloth with very slightly rubbed silver gilt, black topstain. Spine ends/corners a tiny bit softened. Tiny cigarette burn darkens about 6 pages following title page. Darkened glue at eps. Small spot on text block edge. The original unclipped jacket has large chip at spine end, scraping at spine edges and rubbing at folds. A tight square unmarked copy in unclipped jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Codice articolo 17308

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Descrizione: William Heinemann, London, UK, 1938. Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING. 1st/1st - This wonderful book certainly stands out from the crowd! - Strong boards firmly held to page block. Small tear to the spine cloth at the top and small chip to bottom. Looks amazingly clean with very minor soiling. Slight scuffing to corners. A beautiful and vibrant facsimile dust-jacket, produced from an original first printing cover, which was beautifully restored, houses the book; so you can see how the book looked exactly when it was first sold! - Iconic pink and black cover design. - All 361 pages are present. The front and rear blank end-pages are missing and there is a small nick to the page edge on the full title page. Pages are browned and foxed throughout.There is a crack at the margin at the very last page. - Graham Greene on Brighton Rock: - Brighton Rock I began in 1937 as a detective story and continued, I am sometimes tempted to think, as an error of judgment The first fifty pages of Brighton Rock are all that remain of the detective story; they would irritate me, if I dared to look at them now, for I know I ought to have had the strength of mind to remove them, and to start the story again?however difficult the revisions might have proved ? with what is now called Part Two .the setting of Brighton Rock may in part belong to an imaginary geographic region. Though Nelson Place has been cleared away since the war, and the Brighton race gangs were to all intents quashed forever as a serious menace at Lewes Assizes a little before the date of my novel, and even Sherry's dance hall has vanished, they certainly did exist; there was a real Nelson Place, and a man was kidnapped on Brighton front in a broad daylight of the thirties, though not in the same circumstances as Hale, and his body was found somewhere out towards the Downs flung from a car. Colleoni, the gang leader, had his real prototype who had retired by 1938 and lived a gracious Catholic life in one of the Brighton crescents, although I found his name was still law when I demanded entrance by virtue of it to a little London nightclub called The Nest behind Regent Street -- All the same I must plead guilty to manufacturing this Brighton of mine as I never manufactured Mexico or Indochina. There were no living models for these gangsters, nor for the barmaid who so obstinately refused to come alive. I had spent only one night in the company of someone who could have belonged to Pinkie's gang?a man from the Wandsworth dog-tracks whose face had been carved because he was suspected of grassing to the bogies after a killing in the stadium. (He taught me the only professional slang I knew, but one cannot learn a language in one night however long.) -- .The Pinkies are the real Peter Pans ? doomed to be juvenile for a lifetime. They have something of a fallen angel about them, a morality which once belonged to another place. The outlaw of justice always keeps in his heart the sense of justice outraged ? his crimes have an excuse and yet he is pursued by the Others. The Others have committed worse crimes and flourish. The world is full of Others who wear the masks of Success, of a Happy Family. Whatever crime he may be driven to commit the child who doesn't grow up remains the great champion of justice. "An eye for an eye." "Give them a dose of their own medicine." As children we have all suffered punishments for faults we have not committed, but the wound has soon healed. With Raven and Pinkie the wound never heals. - END - Our orders are shipped within 1 or 2 business days. - Thanks for your interest. Codice articolo 000006

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Descrizione: The Viking Press, New York, 1938. First American edition, preceding the British edition by one month of Greene's chilling expose of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Octavo, original cloth. Some light dampstaining, very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by George Salter. "Here the probing is carried further in a brilliant and uncompromising indictment of some of the worst aspects of modern civilization, showing us the hard-boiled criminal mind not as a return to savagery but as a horrible perversion of cerebration" (The New York Times). It is the basis for the 1947 film directed by John Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough as gang leader Pinkie Brown and the 2010 film, which stars Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Serkis, John Hurt, Sean Harris and Dame Helen Mirren. Codice articolo 91478

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Descrizione: London Heinemann 1938, 1938. A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1938. A near fine book with some light spotting to the page edges and to the prelims and terminal pages. A small stain to the foot of the front cover - a very nice copy indeed of this rare book. Codice articolo 10567

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Descrizione: Viking Press, New York, 1958. Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover spine sunned, small tears. Published in June 1938. Codice articolo 000811

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Descrizione: Heinemann, London, 1938. Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. First UK edition. 361 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, tan endpapers. Very Good. No jacket. Cloth a bit soiled, worn away at head, slightly soiled back cover; spine dulled; binding a bit shaken. Small stain on top edge, a few finger smudges in margins. A nice copy. The first British edition of Greene's thriller, set in the seaside town of Brighton. Codice articolo 140907123

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Descrizione: Heinemann, UK, 1938. Decorative Cloth. Condizione: Near Very Good. First Edition. 1st Edition 1938. Book is very good and quite bright. Spine a little lightened. Gilt still quite bright. Light surface rubbing to spine tips. Pages slightly age toned and lightly foxed. Contents good. Quite a good example that normally turns up in poor condition. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 14575 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Codice articolo 017491

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Descrizione: London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1938, 1938. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles gilt to spine, publisher's device to rear board in blind. Spine sunned and rolled with the cloth fraying slightly at head, tips rubbed, faint marking to front board, stronger on rear, contents tanned. A good copy. First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US earlier the same year. Codice articolo 109682

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Descrizione: heinemann 1938 london, 1938. first edition first impression octavo red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 361pp VG ( moderate tanning, moderate foxing - mostly to prelims and foredges, light fading to spine, tiny cloth wear to bottom edge of spine) A very nice copy of this iconic RARE first edition. NO DEALER DISCOUNT at this very low price. Codice articolo s21b/18

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Descrizione: Heinemann, 1938. Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first impression from 1938 in VG condition, the pages are toned but clean, binding is firm, no internal markings, the boards have some slight scuffing but nothing remarkable, the jacket is a facsimile copy, now in removable protective sleeve, please see pics, paypal accepted, any questions please get in touch. Codice articolo ABE-18050744435

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Descrizione: Viking Press, New York, 1938. Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. The Book: Very slightly cocked, pink portion of spine has two areas where faint brown "spotting" occurs and another area below the Viking Press line where a tiny black dot shows. The top edge of the back cover has an area of 3/4" inch from the corner where an animal or more likely an insect has eaten away the black surface and the pink beneath it shows. The top edge is stained black or very dark blue and there are two area about the size of a pin head where an insect had started a boring action at the very top corner and the black surface makes it a bit more noticeable than it might other wise be. The fore edge is very lightly dust stained, the bottom edge less so. These problems stem largely from having been stored for some time in less than an optimum manner. The Jacket: Missing a piece at the top of the spine of 1/2" at widest, narrowing to 1/4" else nearly intact but for corners and with considerable wear, closed tears, creasing, etc. $2.50 price is there. Think it's great that work is referred to as "An Entertainment by GRAHAM GREENE". A true First in much less than fine condition of a scarce item, would entertain serious counter offers. Codice articolo 005151

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Descrizione: Viking Press, New York, 1958. Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. DJ in archival cover spine sunned, small tears. Previous owners name. Second printing. Codice articolo 000807

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Descrizione: Heinemann, 1938. Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first impression from 1938 in Vg condition, pages are heavily toned but clean, binding is firm, there is a binding crack to title page, the jacket is a facsimile copy, now in removable protective sleeve, please see pics, PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch. Codice articolo ABE-1490086630371

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