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Graham Greene
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The Confidential Agent
Graham Greene
GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). The Confidential Agent. London: William Heineman, 1939.
First edition in the original and elusive dust-jacket. The Confidential Agent was written in only six weeks, with Greene working on it during the mornings while afternoons were devoted to writing The Power and the Glory. Published shortly after Brighton Rock, The Confidential Agent sees a mysterious Professor D embark on a mission to England to buy coal for his war-torn country. This ‘entertainment’ is loosely based on Greene’s brother who acted as a courier to Spain during the civil war. Wobbe, A15a.
Octavo. (Occasional tiny insignificant spots.) Original blue cloth, spine lettered in red, publisher’s seal stamped in blind on rear cover [this latter possibly a variant, with Wobbe calling for the seal to be stamped in red], the whole slightly cocked with faint crease to spine); original pictorial dust-jacket (light spotting, somewhat worn with some loss to spine ends and folds, some restoration); housed in a dark green quarter morocco solander box. Provenance: Foyles (bookseller’s ticket on front pastedown).
Graham Greene
GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). The Confidential Agent. London: William Heineman, 1939.
First edition in the original and elusive dust-jacket. The Confidential Agent was written in only six weeks, with Greene working on it during the mornings while afternoons were devoted to writing The Power and the Glory. Published shortly after Brighton Rock, The Confidential Agent sees a mysterious Professor D embark on a mission to England to buy coal for his war-torn country. This ‘entertainment’ is loosely based on Greene’s brother who acted as a courier to Spain during the civil war. Wobbe, A15a.
Octavo. (Occasional tiny insignificant spots.) Original blue cloth, spine lettered in red, publisher’s seal stamped in blind on rear cover [this latter possibly a variant, with Wobbe calling for the seal to be stamped in red], the whole slightly cocked with faint crease to spine); original pictorial dust-jacket (light spotting, somewhat worn with some loss to spine ends and folds, some restoration); housed in a dark green quarter morocco solander box. Provenance: Foyles (bookseller’s ticket on front pastedown).
