The Heart of the Matter

by Graham Greene

$75 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Book Society Ltd. in association with William Heinemann Ltd., 1948. Adventure novel FIRST EDITION, first impression, Book Society issue. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.297 1 . Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine, and buff endpapers. Top edge red. With the red typographic dust-jacket priced at 9/6. Edges a toned, faint residue of gummed label to endpaper, jacket with chips and tears, sunned to spine. Greene's classic tale of diamond smuggling

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