GREENE, Graham. The Quiet American. London: Heinemann. 1955. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very good copy. The cloth clean and bright, a trifle marked. The binding tight and square. Some foxing to the textblock edges, and some quite considerable spiral-like toning to endpapers and prelims, then usually fine with occasional singular spots elsewhere. The dust jacket unclipped (13s 6d net), the spine panel slightly darkened, small nicks to the corners and tips, and some mild spots to all panels.
A cynical yet compassionate portrait of American Exceptionalism and its surreptitious attempts of empire-building in Vietnam in the 1950s, much of which is played out via a complex love triangle. One of Greene’s most famous novels and often included on lists of important twentieth century novels.
GREENE, Graham. The Quiet American. London: Heinemann. 1955. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very good copy. The cloth clean and bright, a trifle marked. The binding tight and square. Some foxing to the textblock edges, and some quite considerable spiral-like toning to endpapers and prelims, then usually fine with occasional singular spots elsewhere. The dust jacket unclipped (13s 6d net), the spine panel slightly darkened, small nicks to the corners and tips, and some mild spots to all panels.
A cynical yet compassionate portrait of American Exceptionalism and its surreptitious attempts of empire-building in Vietnam in the 1950s, much of which is played out via a complex love triangle. One of Greene’s most famous novels and often included on lists of important twentieth century novels.
