Stamboul Train

London/Geneva: Heron Books, 1966. Hardback. Fine. No DW as published in this edition. Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4 " - 9". 261 pages. Slight discoloration patch inside front cover. No annotations or inscriptions. Very good condition faux leather cover with gilt decoration, decorative end pages, Pages clean and white. Place marker ribbon in place. Excellent sized print. Original and impressive frontispiece portrait of Greene by Sheilagh Noble. Original illustrations by Roy White. This is a handsome example of the Heron books special edition of Greene's novels. Firm binding, bright and clear content throughout. A handsome looking volume typical of Heron Books editions published in Switzerland in the 1960s. A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene, 'One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century - he brought something undeniably new to fiction' Daily Telegraph. Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naive English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople. As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in the fates of the other passengers and drawn into a web of espionage, murder and lies.