First Edition of Brighton Rock

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Author: Greene, Graham
Title: Brighton Rock
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Viking
Date Published: 1938
Description:

Peach cloth with black colored portion on upper margins, stamped and lettered in silver, top edge stained black, color pictorial jacket designed by George Salter. First Edition.

True first edition, preceding the first British edition. A small town hoodlum orders a murder of a rival at the Brighton race course and tries to cover it up. Basis for the 1947 film starring Richard Attenborough. Wobbe A13b.
Condition Report: Minuscule chips at ends of somewhat darkened jacket spine, minuscule chips and abrasions to edges, some abrasions to covers as well; light rubbing at heel, toning to endpapers, leaves lightly toned, a few drip stains at top edge; near fine in about very good jacket.