GREENE | This Gun for Hire, 1936, the author's own copy

GREENE, GRAHAM

This Gun for Hire. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1936

8vo, FIRST EDITION, THE AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, SIGNED ON THE TITLE-PAGE, original ivory cloth stamped in green, DUST-JACKET, collector's cloth folding box, lacking front free endpaper, tears and creases with remnants of laid-down dust-jacket to fixed endpapers, slightly soiled and price-clipped dust-jacket frayed at extremities with some loss, numerical annotation on upper panel

Although Wobbe notes A Gun for Sale as the "first edition" published in England in July 1936 he also includes This Gun for Hire as the "first American edition" published in the United States in June 1936. If these dates are accurate, the American edition is the true first edition.

This copy is accompanied by a certificate noting that "this copy of This Gun for Hire is my own personal file copy, and bears my ownership signature". It is dated 10 March 1990.

LITERATURE:

Wobbe A12b

PROVENANCE:

Graham Greene, ownership signature; R.A. Gekoski

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