Greene (Graham) Brighton Rock, first edition, New York, 1938.

Greene (Graham) Brighton Rock, first edition, early ink ownership signature on front free endpaper (crossed out), light toning to endpapers, cracking to gutter and splitting to half-title, original cloth, spine lightly sunned, spine ends and top corners slightly rubbed, edges toned, dust-jacket, closed tear at spine head affecting text, toning, more so at spine, flaps detaching, extremities nicked and chipped, a few water-stains to spine verso, 8vo, New York, 1938. *** The true first edition, published a month before the first English edition, of Greene's classic gangster novel, scarce in dust-jacket.

Estimate:£600

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