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Orient Express
by Greene, Graham
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Mission Viejo, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition.. First Printing. Very scarce American Edition. Published in England as "Stamboul Train". First Edition stated on copyright page. Book is fine in red cloth stamped in black. Book is tight and square with clean pages. There is no writing, stains, foxing or marks of any kind. Price clipped dustjacket (The word price still visible) has light chipping to corners and spine ends. There is no fading with the red lettering on the spine still bright. Book is protected in a custom cut mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box..
Synopsis
"The purser took the last landing-card in his hand and watched the passengers cross the wet quay, over a wilderness of rails and points, round the corners of abandoned trucks." As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople, the driven lives of several of its passengers become bound together in a fateful interlock. The menagerie of characters include Coral Musker, a beautiful chorus girl; Carleton Myatt, a rich Jewish businessman; Richard John, a mysterious and kind doctor returning to his native Belgrade; the spiteful journalist Mabel Warren; and Josef Grunlich, a cunning, murderous burglar. What happens to these strangers as they put on and take off their masks of identity and passion, all the while confessing, prevaricating, and reaching out to one another in the "veracious air" of the onrushing train, makes for one of Graham Greene's most exciting and suspenseful stories. Originally published in 1933, Orient Express was Greene's first major success. This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cahill Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002913
- Title
- Orient Express
- Author
- Greene, Graham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1933
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Cahill Rare Books
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Mission Viejo, California
About Cahill Rare Books
We have been in business for 33 years n Southern California.
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- Spine
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- Tight
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- Fine
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