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Item Details
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| Author: |
Greene, Graham |
| Title: |
Brighton Rock |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
Viking |
| Date: |
1938 |
| Item # : |
188796 |
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| Sale Number |
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377 |
| Lot Number |
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49 |
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| Fine Literature; Beats, Bukowski & the Counter Culture; Sci-Fi & Detective Fiction |
| Sale Date |
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04/03/2008 |
| Price realized |
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$ 1440 |
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| Description: |
| Peach cloth with black colored portion on upper margins, stamped and lettered in silver, top edge stained black, color pictorial jacket. First Edition. |
| True first edition, preceding the first British edition. A small town hoodlum orders a murder of a rival at the Brighton race course and tries to cover it up. Basis for the 1947 film starring Richard Attenborough. Wobbe A13b. |
| Condition: |
| Two large tears to lower jacket (one with clear tape repair), other mild edge wear, soiling, some creases and nicks; a few faint stains to cloth; bookplate and rubberstamp of Bruce Rodeniser on front pastedown, short ink notes on rear free endpaper; still very good, jacket about very good. |
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