Blue cloth, spine lettered in red. Spine very slightly darkened with minimal foxing to preliminary pages. Overall a fresh VG+ copy.
Greene (Graham) The Confidential Agent
£425
First edition.
London, Heinemann, 1939
Basis of the 1945 film starring Lauren Bacall and Peter Lorre.
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