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Greene, Graham : The Tenth Man

Simon & Schuster, New York, 1985

ISBN 067150794X

In a Gestapo prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonising and crucial failure of nerve. Hysterical with panic, fear, and a sense of injustice, he offers to barter everything he owns for someone to take his place. Graham Greene wrote The Tenth Man in 1944, when he was under a two-year contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the manuscript lay forgotten in MGM's archives until 1983. It is now published for the first time with an introduction by the author. 157p.Crisp copy, fine except for small remainder mark. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine

1st US Edition.

Greene, Graham : The Tenth Man

Bodley Head, London, 1985

Unclipped DJ in archival cover. Stated first published., Fine

1st Edition

Greene, Graham : The Tenth Man

Viking Press, New York, 1969

DJ in archival cover price clipped., Fine

GREENE**, GRAHAM: : The Tenth Man.**

LONDON.BODLEY HEAD and ANTHONY BLOND,1985.

ISBN 037030831X.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,white background with grey+blue coloured lettering to front+rear panels and spine,illustrated dw/dj design by Michael Harvey; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.A couple of minor superficial indents to each panel - but without any penetration or affecting concomitant spot beneath to boards.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips, would appear unread - apart from my own collation.NO foxing or spotting to text body, fore-edges,pastedowns or endpapers.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,9-157pp [paginated] includes author's introduction (including film sketches for 'Jim Braddon and the War Criminal' and 'Nobody to Blame',Pts I-IV comprising 18 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table,an introduction and individual Pts separator pages,last page unpaginated too,and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book. 'In the drive the gravel was obscured by weeds: a tree had fallen right across the way,and though someone had lopped the branches for firewood,the trunk still lay there to prove that for many seasons no car had driven up to the house.Every step was familiar to the bearded man who came cautiously round every bend like a stranger.He had been born here: as a child he had played games of hide and seek in the bushes: as a boy he had carried the melancholy and sweetness of first love up and down the shaded drive . . .' The man calling himself Jean-Louis Charlot returned to the house at St Jean de Brinac after an absence of four years.With the liberation of France,Paris had little to offer him - there seemed no hope of a job, or a future. Instinctively,he made his way home,as many other men were doing all over France at that time,from prison camps,from hiding places,from foreign parts.But Charlot knew that there would be strangers in the old house,and that one moment of panic had cost him the right ever to call it his own again. Graham Greene wrote 'The Tenth Man' in 1944 when he was under a two-year contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,and the manuscript lay in MGM's archives until 1983,forgotten.It is now published for the first time,with an introduction by the author. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers -BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

GREENE**, GRAHAM: : The Tenth Man

LONDON.BODLEY HEAD and ANTHONY BLOND,1985.

ISBN 037030831X.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.An ex-public library example,so no owner inscrptn but residual inked library stamps to pastedowns and free endpapers and an alpha-numerical notation to verso of title page.Endpapers could stand sympathetic replacement; the only library notation would then be to the reverse of the title page - no other library notation present and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,white background with grey+blue coloured lettering to front +rear panels and spine,illustrated dw/dj design by Michael Harvey; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Internally,fluid stains to both head+foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj and to front lower corner too - not visible though,externally.A couple of minor superficial indents to each panel - but without any penetration,or affecting concomitant spot beneath to boards.Top+fore -edges slightly aged/toned/thumbed; contents generally bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - some random scattered dog-ear reading creases to some pages' corners.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine /backstrip and library marked white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-157pp [paginated] includes author's introduction (including film sketches for 'Jim Braddon and the War Criminal' and 'Nobody to Blame',Pts I-IV comprising 18 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,contents list/table,an introduction and individual Pts separator pages,last page unpaginated too,and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book. 'In the drive the gravel was obscured by weeds: a tree had fallen right across the way,and though someone had lopped the branches for firewood,the trunk still lay there to prove that for many seasons no car had driven up to the house. Every step was familiar to the bearded man who came cautiously round every bend like a stranger.He had been born here: as a child he had played games of hide and seek in the bushes: as a boy he had carried the melancholy and sweetness of first love up and down the shaded drive . . .' The man calling himself Jean-Louis Charlot returned to the house at St Jean de Brinac after an absence of four years.With the liberation of France,Paris had little to offer him - there seemed no hope of a job, or a future. Instinctively,he made his way home,as many other men were doing all over France at that time,from prison camps,from hiding places,from foreign parts.But Charlot knew that there would be strangers in the old house,and that one moment of panic had cost him the right ever to call it his own again. Graham Greene wrote 'The Tenth Man' in 1944 when he was under a two-year contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,and the manuscript lay in MGM's archives until 1983,forgotten. It is now published for the first time,with an introduction by the author. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

GREENE**, GRAHAM: : The Tenth Man.**

LONDON.BODLEY HEAD and ANTHONY BLOND,1985.

ISBN 037030831X.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but b/w printed adhesive label with name+address etc stuck to front free endpaper and pencilled inscrptn Died this day 3/4/91 below the label and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,white background with grey+blue coloured lettering to front+rear panels and spine,illustrated dw/dj design by Michael Harvey; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.A couple of minor superficial indents to each panel - but without any penetration or affecting concomitant spot beneath to boards.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean without foxing/spotting - small mark to fore-edges; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.NO foxing or spotting to text body/block,fore-edges,pastedowns or endpapers.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp -cornered,publisher's original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,9-157pp [paginated] includes author's introduction (including film sketches for 'Jim Braddon and the War Criminal' and 'Nobody to Blame'),Pts I-IV comprising 18 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table, an introduction and individual Pts separator pages,last page unpaginated too,and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book. 'In the drive the gravel was obscured by weeds: a tree had fallen right across the way,and though someone had lopped the branches for firewood,the trunk still lay there to prove that for many seasons no car had driven up to the house.Every step was familiar to the bearded man who came cautiously round every bend like a stranger.He had been born here: as a child he had played games of hide and seek in the bushes: as a boy he had carried the melancholy and sweetness of first love up and down the shaded drive . . .' The man calling himself Jean-Louis Charlot returned to the house at St Jean de Brinac after an absence of four years. With the liberation of France,Paris had little to offer him - there seemed no hope of a job,or a future.Instinctively,he made his way home,as many other men were doing all over France at that time,from prison camps, from hiding places,from foreign parts.But Charlot knew that there would be strangers in the old house,and that one moment of panic had cost him the right ever to call it his own again. Graham Greene wrote 'The Tenth Man' in 1944 when he was under a two-year contract to Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer,and the manuscript lay in MGM's archives until 1983, forgotten.It is now published for the first time,with an introduction by the author. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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