First edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Donald Green designed dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with toning to the paper-stock and spotting to the closed top edge are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine ever so lightly rubbed dustwrapper that is a little toned to the edges of the rear panel and otherwise without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (15s net to the lower front flap).
An attractive example of Greene's 1958 black comedy, adapted (the following year) into the Carol Reed directed film, starring Alec Guinness in the role of vacuum cleaner salesman turned MI6 operative, James Wormald.
Stock code: 26066
£175