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The End of the Affair is Rarely This Pretty

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Author: Greene, Graham
Title: The End of the Affair
Place Published: London
Publisher:William Heinemann
Date Published: [1951]
Description:

Gray cloth, jacket. First Edition.

One of Greene‘s classics, and the basis for two different film versions, one in 1955 starring Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson and also in 1999 starring Julianne Moore and Ralph Fiennes.

Condition

Mild chipping to jacket spine head & rubbing to foot, browning to jacket spine, else fine in very good jacket.

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SKU: 61385201
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