Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st US, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray textured boards with red cloth spine stamped in black. No dust jacket. Suspense and action in post-war Vienna. True First which preceded the UK edition. Source for the film noir directed by Carol Reed starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles. Greene wrote the story specifically to frame the film and had originally not intended it to be published. Clean copy.
