Greene (Graham) It's a Battlefield, first edition, original cloth, light sunning to spine, second issue dust-jacket by Youngman Carter priced at 3/6 on spine, light sunning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, some rubbing and creasing to head and foot, some light surface soiling to lower pane, but a very good, bright copy overall, preserved in custom drop-back box, 1934; and the first American edition of the same, 8vo (2)

⁂ Greene's first political novel, much influenced by Conrad after whom one of the characters in named. Following publication a murder took place in London that was notably similar to that depicted in the novel and for several days afterwards Greene feared arrest.