THIS GUN FOR HIRE

by Graham Greene

$5,000 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1936. First Edition. Greene's seventh novel, published in the UK under the title A Gun for Sale. A hired gunman English underprivileged youth murders a socialist minister on the Continent and almost plunges Europe into war. Insp. Mather trails him, but M.'s own fiancée gets drawn into the chase and almost succeeds in humanizing the murderer Barzun & Taylor 1574 .

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