The Lawless Roads: A Mexican Journey
by GREENE, GRAHAM
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
Longmans, Green & Co 1939. First issue first edition, ex library, d/w flaps trimmed, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus yellow eps,upper pae edges stained yellow, frontispiece, 306pp, illus, VG- (moderate staining to boards, esp to rear board & sellotape-residue staining to both, bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, owner's name stamp to half-title page, some light foxing & tanning to page edges, stain spot to fep verso & half-title, sellotape-residue staining to eps) in d/w, VG- (flaps trimmed and sellotaped at front & rear pastedowns, creasing & nicks to upper spine extrem, light fading to edges)
Synopsis
Graham Greene (1904-1991) worked as a journalist and critic, and was later employed by the foreign office. His many books include The Third Man , The Comedians and Travels with My Aunt . He is the subject of an acclaimed three-volume biography by Norman Sherry.
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- Title
- The Lawless Roads: A Mexican Journey
- Author
- GREENE, GRAHAM
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co 1939
- Keywords
- first edition Graham Greene Mexico travel literature
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