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Greene, Graham.
Our Man in Havana: An Entertainment.
Publisher: Heinemann, London;
Date of Publication: 1958
Stock Code: 8920
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [6], 273, [1]. Publishers’ royal blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket designed by Donald Green. Slightly cocked; cover cloth bright. Ownership inscription in pencil to ffep; very minor foxing to text-block edge. Jacket nicked & creased to edge, and surface soiled to rear white panel; very minor loss at spine tips and corners. A Very Good copy in like jacket. Black comedy novel by the leading twentieth century British author Graham Greene (1904-91), set in Cuba in the years preceding before the Cuban Missile Crisis and featuring gullible intelligence agents, disinformation and double-dealing. The work was produced as a film of the same name directed by Carol Reed and starring Alec Guinness in 1959, and was later adapted for opera and as a play. £85.00