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The Lawless Roads
by GREENE, Graham
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Longmans, Green & Co, 1939. Hardcover/Hardback. Fine. First edition, first impression (first state with gilt lettering to spine.). Frontispiece, 9 other illustrations. Map of Mexico on both endpapers. Trace of price(?) having been removed from top corner of front free endpaper and previous ownership inscription (J.D. Samber, Trinity College, Oxford) to verso of ffep. Small stain to bottom edge. Bright red cloth boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine slightly darkened. Overall condition VG . No dust wrapper.Published: Longmans, Green & Co, 1939
Synopsis
Graham Greene (1904-1991) worked as a journalist and critic, and was later employed by the foreign office. His many books include The Third Man , 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
- Roy Turner Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 967
- Title
- The Lawless Roads
- Author
- GREENE, Graham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover/Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co
- Date Published
- 1939
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
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- Cloth
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Spine
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
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