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GREENE, GRAHAM. 1904-1991. The Confidential Agent. London and Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd., 1...
GREENE, GRAHAM. 1904-1991. The Confidential Agent. London and Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd., 1...
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GREENE, GRAHAM. 1904-1991.
The Confidential Agent. London and Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd., 1939.
8vo. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in red on spine, with blind-stamped publisher's device on lower cover, pictorial dust jacket. Light soiling to edges of cloth, light foxing to outer leaves, toning, jacket restored and trimmed at top and bottom edges, creases and soiling.

FIRST EDITION. Greene wrote The Confidential Agent in just six weeks, fueled by benzedrine and a need to make money. He was displeased with the result, but today the novel is a classic of the thriller genre. Wobbe A15a.
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