first edition Softcover
1985 · London
by GREENE, Graham
London: You, 1985. Softcover. Near Fine. Two issues. Periodicals. Quartos. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Slight rubbing and toning else fine in stapled wrappers. The first published appearance of this Greene novel, complete in two issues of *You: The Mail on Sunday Magazine*. The story was first developed in the 1940s while Graham was under contract with MGM but never produced. MGM sold the rights to publisher Anthony Blonde in the early 1980s who asked Greene to revise the story. The novel was finally published in book form by Bodley Head in March of 1985 and made into a TV movie in 1988 starring Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, and Kristen Scott Thomas. (Inventory #: 83438)