The End of the Affair

London: William Heinemann, 1951. First edition of Graham Greene's bestselling novel, charting the tormented love affair of writer Maurice Bendrix and Sarah Miles, the restless wife of a British civil servant: "When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and all I know is that in spite of her mistakes and her unreliability, she was better than most. It's just as well that one of us should believe in her: she never did in herself." First issue, with the divisional numeral VIII of Book Two omitted. A very nearly fine copy. Single volume, measuring 7.25 x 4.75 inches: [6], 237, [1]. Original grey cloth titled in gilt, tan endpapers, original unclipped color-printed dust jacket. Small bookseller stamp (The Times Bookshop) to rear pastedown. Lightest edgewear.