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The Captain and the Enemy
by Greene, Graham
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (slight bumping, in protective sleeve), olive green boards, gilt spine titling bright; tex
- ISBN 10
- 1871061059
- ISBN 13
- 9781871061055
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Reinhardt Books (Viking Books), 1988. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (slight bumping, in protective sleeve), olive green boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp, slightest foxing on edges. Unread.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). 'I am now in my twenty-second year and yet the only birthday which I can clearly distinguish among all the rest was my twelfth, for it was on that damp and misty day in September that I met the Captain for the first time. I can still remember the wetness of the gravel under my gym shoes in the school quad and how the blown leaves made the cloisters by the chapel slippery as I ran recklessly to escape from my enemies between one class and the next. I slithered and came to an abrupt halt while my pursuers went whistling away, because there in the middle of the quad stood our formidable headmaster talking to a tall man in a bowler hat, a rare sight already at that date so that he looked a little like an actor in costume - an impression not so far wrong, for I never saw him in a bowler hat again.'
Synopsis
Graham Greene (1904-1991) worked as a journalist and critic, and was later employed by the foreign office. His many books include The Power and the Glory , The Third Man , Our Man in Havana , The Comedians and Travels with My Aunt . He is the subject of an acclaimed three-volume biography by Norman Sherry.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC132269
- Title
- The Captain and the Enemy
- Author
- Greene, Graham
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (slight bumping, in protective sleeve), olive green boards, gilt spine titling bright; tex
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1871061059
- ISBN 13
- 9781871061055
- Publisher
- Reinhardt Books (Viking Books)
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1988
- Pages
- 189
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, Greene
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.3 g
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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