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The Heart of the Matter
by GREENE GRAHAM
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Leicester, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (London: Willian Heinemann Ltd 1948). First UK Edition, first printing. Publisher's original dark blue cloth with silver titles to the spine. Top edge stained red. A VG+ copy, the binding clean and square with only light rubbing and softening at the spine tips. The contents are clean throughout. The text block edge is, as usual, a little tanned, due to the poor quality of post-war paper used. Complete with the near fine lightly rubbed and nicked D/W which is exceptionally clean and bright with a couple of short closed tears at the bottom edge and a single small piece of tape (applied by a former owner) to the underside at the rear flap fold. With just a hint fading to the spine which is really bright and quite scarce thus. The D/W is not price-clipped (9s 6d net to the front flap). Includes a partial publisher's Book Society Choice wrap-around band missing the front panel and front free end-paper portions. The basis for the 1953 movie of the same name directed by George More O'Ferrall starring Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allen, Maria Schell and Peter Finch. Trevor Howard won the 1954 BAFTA for Best British Actor. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Synopsis
Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter, set in an unnamed West African colony towards the end of World War II, is loosely based on the author’s own experience as a British intelligence officer in Sierra Leone. The novel’s protagonist, Henry Scobie, struggles to make his miserable wife happy. In the process, Scobie begins to wonder if any individual can truly make another happy, resulting in a life-changing moral crisis. The Heart of the Matter, an insightful exploration of pity, suffering, religion, and responsibility, quickly became extremely popular, having sold more than 300,000 copies upon publication. The novel was critically acclaimed and received many favorable reviews. In 1948, The Heart of the Matter was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and it was shortlisted for the Best of the James Tait Black awardees in 2012. The novel is ranked 40th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century and is also listed on TIME’s “100 Best Novels” (since 1923).
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Details
- Bookseller
- James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 355490719220
- Title
- The Heart of the Matter
- Author
- GREENE GRAHAM
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
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About the Seller
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
Biblio member since 2006
Leicester
About James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
James M Pickard (Rare Books) is proud to be a full member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
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