Our Man in Havana

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2010. Limited Edition. Hardcover. New. Hamilton, William. Octavo, 9 by 6 inches, 300 pages. The type is Bruce Old Style, in Monotype composition by Mackenzie & Harris, with handset Greco Bold and Greco Adornado for display. The images were printed from photopolymer plates. The paper is Mohawk Superfine. The binding, done in-house, is machine-sewn, in full cloth silk-screened in three colors with the Cuban flag and a spine title. The endpapers have a drawing by Hamilton. Edition of 300 numbered copies, plus 26 lettered copies hors de commerce. Graham Green (1904-1991) was a major English writer, the author of more than twenty-five novels, although he preferred to call books like "Our Man in Havana" "entertainments". Yet this "high comic mayhem", as Christopher Buckley calls it, has endured as an important work of literature, timeless in its skepticism about the competence of the intelligence community.

The motion picture based on the novel, starring Alec Guinness and Burl Ives, is so hilariously true to the story that viewers turn into readers.

William Hamilton, a prolific "New Yorker" magazine cartoonist, had already illustrated the Arion edition of "Tartuffe" (no. 68) when he accepted the assignent to add visual amusement to this book.

Please note that this title is now out of print, other than a sole remaining display copy, which we offer here. While this copy was likely used for disply on occasion, and is marked "Display III" at the colophon, it is in appearance fine, clean and without wear.

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