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Greene (Graham) The Heart of the Matter, first edition,
Greene (Graham) The Heart of the Matter, first edition,
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Greene (Graham) The Heart of the Matter, first edition, light browning to spine, original cloth spine ends and corners a little bumped, dust-jacket, very slight fading to spine, spine ends and corners chipped and creased, rubbing to extremities, tape-staining to verso at head, a very good, bright copy generally, 1948; The Heart of the Matter, first American edition, one of 750 copies bound for distribution to friends of the Viking Press, original cloth, near-fine, New York, 1948; and the standard first American edition of the same, 8vo (3)

⁂ Greene's celebrated novel, set in Sierra Leone, winner of the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The spine is often faded but is unusually bright in the present example.
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Greene (Graham) The Heart of the Matter, first edition,

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