Basement Room by Greene Graham (9 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Risse; Farbveränderung durch Alter/Sonne. Inhaltsverzeichnis - 'The end of the party'; 'The basement room'; 'A drive in the country'; 'The hint of explanation'; 'The destructors'.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

B-format paperback (20 X 13cm). Condition: Very Good. 157pp. First Penguin edition published in 1971. 30th printing. The Fallen Idol was originally published as The Basement Room in 1935. The Third Man was first published in 1950. The cover shows a still from the film version of The Third Man. The pages are age-tanned. A couple of tiny stains to bottom edge. The spine is uncreased and the binding is firm.

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Diese Sammlung ausgewählter englischsprachiger Kurzgeschichten von Graham Greene bietet Einblicke in spannende und tiefsinnige Erzählungen. Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Bick, umfasst die Ausgabe Klassiker wie \ The End of the Party\ und \ The Basement Room\ . Zustand: Einband mit geringfügigen Gebrauchsspuren, insgesamt SEHR GUTER Zustand! Stichworte: Genres: Kurzgeschichte, Literatur, Fiktion; Schlagworte: Graham Greene, Kurzgeschichten, Englisch, Reclam, Literatur, Twentieth Century, Fiktion, Herausgeber, Stuttgart, Buchhandel. 160 Seiten Englisch 62g.

Hardback. Condition: Good to Very Good. First Edition. 1935. First edition. vii, 165pp. This is Graham Greene's first collection of short stories, with The Basement Room, I Spy, A Chance For Mr Lever and Proof Positive seeing their first publication in any form. The Basement Room is recognised as Greene's most successful short story, and was adapted in 1948 into the Oscar nominated film, The Fallen Idol directed by Carol Reed. The book is bound in the original red cloth covered boards with black titling on the spine. The case of the book is in good to very good condition with some shelf wear and light soiling on the boards together with patchy loss of colour from water damage on about 1" of the fore edge of both boards. The top corners and top of the spine are lightly bumped and the spine is very slightly cocked. The contents are tight and clean with a name, place and date (1947) written on the front free endpaper. About 1/2" of the fore edge of the fixed front and rear endpapers are stained red where colour has been taken from the cloth binding. There is some lighter staining on the fore edge of the free endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Hardcover. Variant binding in red cloth titled in black. First edition, first impression, second issue. Blind stamp of 'Beaumont English Language Library' to f.e.p. (No other stamps or labels). Red cloth slightly sunned on spine, large uneven faded patch and few stains to rear cover, minor wear to foot of spine, spots of light foxing to endpapers, the odd spot or two of foxing internally, top corner crease to one page. Good copy.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 64p.

First edition, first impression, in the first issue green cloth (copies were later issued in red cloth). This is Greene's first collection of short stories, with "The Basement Room", "I Spy", "A Chance For Mr Lever", and "Proof Positive" seeing their first publication in any form. The title story is recognized as Greene's most successful short story, and was adapted by Greene in 1948 into the Oscar nominated film The Fallen Idol, directed by Carol Reed. The Cresset Press was founded as an independent press in 1927 by Dennis Cohen, and in its early years producing a number of handsome deluxe editions, of which the best known today is Gulliver's Travels decorated by Rex Whistler (1930). By the mid-thirties the market for such books had collapsed, and the Cresset Press turned to general publishing, while retaining an eye for good design. Miller 15; Wise & Hill A9; Wobbe A10. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine a little dulled with slight lean, front hinge split following free endpaper and slight separation between gatherings A and B, a good copy.