Stamboul Train by Greene, Graham - 1932

London: Heinemann, 1932. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition (first issue was suppressed, second issue uses Quin Savory instead of Q. C. Savory - see pg. 78), without d/j. Blackboards clean but with creasing on front and spine bent. Pages clean but spotting on edges. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Two years before Agatha Christie had Hercule Poirot on the same train, Greene deliberartely set out to write an 'entertainment' to help with his ailing finances (his first two novels had not done well) - it brilliantly evokes the unease in central Europe in the 1930s, with its political turbulence, anti-semitism, nationalisms and economic chaos).