THE COLLECTED EDITION and COLLECTED ESSAYS. Volume 1, Brighton Rock; 2, It's a Battlefield; 3, England Made Me; 4, Our Man in Havana; 5, The Power and the Glory; 6, The Heart of the Matter; 7, The Confidential Agent; 8, Collected Stories; 9, A Gun for Sale; 10, The Ministry of Fear; 11, The Quiet American; 12, Stamboul Train; 13, The End of the Affair; 14; A Burnt-out Case; 15, The Man Within; 16, The Third Man and Loser Takes All; 17, The Comedians; 18, Journey without Maps; 19, The Lawless Roads; 20, Travels with my Aunt; 21, The Honorary Consul; 22, The Human Factor. Plus; The Collected Essays.
William Heinemann and The Bodley Head. London. 1969 - 1984, 1969.
23 Volumes - Complete. A mixed set of 13 First printings and 10 reprints. --- Collected essays and Volumes 8 to 10 and 14 to 22 are all First printings, the others are reprints dating from 1975 - 1984. Publishers dark green cloth bindings with gilt ruling and lettering to the spines and grey endpapers. A fine set of books in very good dustwrappers, designed by Michael Harvey with some toning to the spines and a small amount of rubbing to extremities. The dustwrappers in some volumes have been price clipped and new price labels attached. Volume 19 has a small tear to the top front hinge of the wrapper. Overall a very good set. Collected essays was issued in 1969, before the rest of the volumes, and is a little larger although the wrapper style is similar so it doesn't look out of place on the shelf with the set. ---- Greene wrote a new introduction to each of the volumes for this edition.
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Price: £1,200.00