The Comedians

London: The Bodley Head, 1966 First edition, first printing. Publisher's dark green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, in the original green pictorial dust jacket designed by Ivan Lapper, with 25s price to front flap. Light spotting to endpapers and title page and small nick to top edge, else fine book; near fine dust jacket, with light wear to edges of spine and some toning to top edges of front and rear flaps. Overall, an exceptionally crisp copy. The Comedians is a novel set in Haiti under the rule of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier. As with Greene's other works about British civilians living abroad in warring nations, the novel presents itself as pure fiction, yet provides a strikingly accurate outsider's portrayal of the social and political landscape. Greene even admits in his introduction that "Poor Haiti itself and the character of Doctor Duvalier's rule are not invented, the latter not even blackened for dramatic effect. Impossible to deepen that night." Unsurprisingly, Duvalier banned both Greene and The Comedians from Haiti.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.