Ways Escape, Signed (8 results)

First Edition. First Canadian edition. Hardcover. 266 pages. Number 102 from an edition of only 150 copies. A memoir from the author of "The Power and The Glory" and "The Quiet American." A fine copy in green cloth boards and in a fine matching green cloth covered slipcase. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Greene on the limitation page. A very fresh copy of this book which precedes the British edition. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Number 137 of 150 copies signed by the author, available in brown leather (first issue) and green cloth (second). Despite uncertainty over the size of each issue, together they make up the true first edition. Due to a family connection with the Canadian publishers, Greene consented for the book to be released in Canada before England and the US. Octavo. Original green cloth over boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Matching slip case. Slight fading to gilt especially in Ways , otherwise a fine copy and case. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. True first edition, published prior to the UK and US edition. From the library of noted author and bibliophile Greg Gatenby, founder and artistic director of the Harbourfront Book Festival in Toronto. Fine in fine dw, INSCRIBED by Greene to Gatenby on the front end paper, where Gatenby has added his signature and contemporaneous date atop the page. Beautiful association copy of Greene's second autobiographical undertaking! Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. #53 of 150 copies SIGNED by Greene on the limitation page. Fine in brown boards, absent dw as issued, in a matching fine brown slipcase. Reportedly only 20 or so copies were produced in this format, rather than the 150 called for, which belies this being #53! Regardless, a very scarce format for this second installment in Greene's autobiography. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Limited Edition. #134 of 150 copies SIGNED by Greene on the limitation page. Beautiful copy, as new in green boards and green cloth slipcase, absent dw as issued. The author's second autobiographical volume. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Copy number 8 of less than 20 copies leather bound and issued by the publisher at the time of publication. The rest were remaindered as unbound gatherings of signatures and later issued by a book dealer in a cheap green cloth. Signed by Greene. In publisher's slipcase. Fine condition book and slipcase. There was also an unsigned trade edition. This was the Canadian edition, preceding all others, including the US and UK editions.

First and signed limited edition, first issue. Number 7 of a planned edition of 150 copies specially bound and signed by the author. The project was undertaken in a slightly ad-hoc and amateurish fashion, and in fact only around 20 sets of sheets were so bound before the publishers abandoned the project. This copy is bound in a slightly more elaborate style than other copies seen later in the series, with more gilt decoration to the spine. The remaining unbound sheets were issued in green cloth and offered for sale by a Canadian bookseller. Octavo. Original brown leather, titles to spine and front board in gilt, cream endpapers. A fine copy.

First edition. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper to close friend, Gillian Sutro, "For Gillian, with love from Graham / A poor return for all that vodka April 18. 1981." A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. A fine association copy, inscribed by Greene to some of his closest friends in later life. John Sutro was a film producer and Gillian, a fashion journalist, described by Nancy Mitford as "one of the ten best dressed women in England", combined film and fashion. Sutro had known Evelyn Waugh at Oxford and his literary circle included Arthur Koestler, Christopher Sykes, John Sparrow and Jean Cocteau. The Sutros where introduced to Greene in the 1950 and became lifelong friends. They were near neighbours in Antibes and each corresponded independently with him, Gillian helping him through his tumultuous affair with Yvette Cloetta.