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GREENE, Graham. The Quiet American. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1955.
8o. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jacket (slight offsetting on endpapers, spine a bit faded, head of spine a bit worn). Provenance: A.S. Frere, Greene's editor (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GREENE TO HIS EDITOR AT HEINEMANN, A.S. FRERE on the front free endpaper: "Dear Frere, This book with all my gratitude & affection, & in hope that there will be a few more to bother you with. Love, Graham."
The Quiet American was a seemingly simple tale of a group of Westerners in Vietnam after the French evacuation. It has become one of Greene's minor masterpieces. (See lot 288 for John Steinbeck's The Short Reign of Pippin IV inscribed to Frere.) Wobbe A35a.
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FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GREENE TO HIS EDITOR AT HEINEMANN, A.S. FRERE on the front free endpaper: "Dear Frere, This book with all my gratitude & affection, & in hope that there will be a few more to bother you with. Love, Graham."
The Quiet American was a seemingly simple tale of a group of Westerners in Vietnam after the French evacuation. It has become one of Greene's minor masterpieces. (See lot 288 for John Steinbeck's The Short Reign of Pippin IV inscribed to Frere.) Wobbe A35a.