Stamboul Train (Uniform edition)
by Greene, Graham
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good, Uniform edition (original 1932) with good d/j, text block firm, pages clean and unmarked. Owner's neat inscription on
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About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1947. Uniform. h/b. Very good, Uniform edition (original 1932) with good d/j, text block firm, pages clean and unmarked. Owner's neat inscription on ffep.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). 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).
Synopsis
Stamboul Train (1932) is a novel by author Graham Greene. A thriller set on an Orient Express train, it was renamed Orient Express when it was published in the United States.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC133053
- Title
- Stamboul Train (Uniform edition)
- Author
- Greene, Graham
- Format/Binding
- H/b
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, Uniform edition (original 1932) with good d/j, text block firm, pages clean and unmarked. Owner's neat inscription on
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Uniform
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 264
- Size
- 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4"")
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, Greene
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
Terms of Sale
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- Uniform Edition
- A collection or series of individual volumes of an author's work bound to match with a uniform size and style. Especially common...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...