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248 - Greene (Graham) Brighton Rock, first edition, early ink ownership signature on front free endpaper (crossed out), light toning to endpapers, cracking to gutter and splitting to half-title, original cloth, spine lightly sunned, spine ends and top corners slightly rubbed, edges toned, dust-jacket, closed tear at spine head affecting text, toning, more so at spine, flaps detaching, extremities nicked and chipped, a few water-stains to spine verso, 8vo, New York, 1938.
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Greene (Graham) Brighton Rock, first edition, early ink ownership signature on front free endpaper (crossed out), light toning to endpapers, cracking to gutter and splitting to half-title, original cloth, spine lightly sunned, spine ends and top corners slightly rubbed, edges toned, dust-jacket, closed tear at spine head affecting text, toning, more so at spine, flaps detaching, extremities nicked and chipped, a few water-stains to spine verso, 8vo, New York, 1938. *** The true first edition, published a month before the first English edition, of Greene's classic gangster novel, scarce in dust-jacket.
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