Heart Matter by Greene Graham, Signed (5 results)

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. French edition rebound in brown leather boards with beveled edges, six raised bands and gilt stamping on the spine. Boards loosely attached, thus very good only. INSCRIBED and dated 1951 in Saigon on the half-title page. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Nearly Fine. Special Edition. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. One of 750 copies of the first edition specially bound for distribution to friends of the Viking Press. Light separation to front hinge thus nearly fine in grey cloth binding with red-and-black stamping to the front panel and faded spine, absent dw as issued. INSCRIBED and contemporaneously dated by Greene on the front end paper to Viking Press editor Dorothy Shereff. One of Greene's most popular and enduring works, and chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923. Uncommon signed. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 23 Volumes - Complete. FIRST EDITIONS and First printings of all volumes in this collected edition. --- Volume 1, Brighton Rock, is inscribed and signed by Graham Greene on the front free endpaper; - 'For Doctor A. D. Thomson from Graham Greene.' --- Publishers dark green cloth bindings with gilt ruling and lettering to the spines and grey endpapers. A fine set of books in very good dustwrappers, designed by Michael Harvey with some toning to the spines and a small amount of rubbing to extremities. Some volumes have a neat previous owner name on the front free endpaper and four of the wrappers nave been neatly price-clipped. A very good set with the added bonus of Greene's signature and inscription in Brighton Rock. Collected essays was issued in 1969, before the rest of the volumes, and is a little larger although the wrapper style is similar so it doesn't look out of place on the shelf with the set. ---- Greene wrote a new introduction to each of the volumes for this edition. -- More photos available on request. Inscribed by Author(s).

First American edition of what many consider the authorâs masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Bob Goldstein from Graham Greene Nothing under $200,000." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by Edgard Cirlin. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. The Heart of the Matter was enormously popular, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom upon its release and went on to win the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. It tells the story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West African coastal town. Scobie is bound by strict integrity to his role as assistant police commissioner and by severe responsibility to his wife, Louise, for whom he cares with a fatal pity. When Scobie falls in love with the young widow Helen, he finds vital passion again yielding to pity, integrity giving way to deceit and dishonorâ"a vortex leading directly to murder. As Scobie's world crumbles, his personal crisis develops the foundation of a story by turns suspenseful, fascinating, and, finally, tragic. ''Graham Greene was in a class by himself. He will be read and remembered as the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety" (William Golding). It was named by The Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2005, the it was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 297 pp. Text block and book itself without condition issues. DJ with shelf wear along edges, minor chipping and/or tiny closed tearing -- see photos. Neat triangular cut-out of lower corner, front inner fold -- price clipping. Still a handsomely preserved DJ overall.