BRIGHTON ROCK: AN ENTERTAINMENT Greene, Graham Books Into Film,Mystery & Detective

First Printing, preceding the UK edition by a month. Octavo (21cm); bound in two-tone black and reddish-brown cloth, with titling and horizontal rule stamped in silver on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-358,[2]pp. Pictorial bookplate of Albert L. Vogt on front pastedown, with the bookplate of U.S. Navy Captain Charles J. Muto on front endpaper. Base of spine very gently nudged, with some subtle offsetting to gutters at endpapers; very Near Fine. In the first printing dustjacket, with portrait of a young Green on front flap, blurbs for books by W.L. White, Howard Spring, Franz Werfel, and H.G. Wells on rear flap, and a synopsis of Brighton Rock on rear panel; price-clipped, gently spine-sunned, showing modest edge wear, some toning to rear panel and flap folds, with a few tiny nicks and tears, and a small abrasion to lower spine panel; Very Good+. An early, superlative thriller by Greene, charting the rise and fall of a sociopathic teenage gang leader Pinkie Brown in the seaside town of Brighton. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title, and basis for two film adaptations: the 1947 John Boulting film, starring Richard Attenborough, and Rowan Joffe's recent adaptation, starring Sam Riley, Helen Mirren, and John Hurt. Wobbe A13b; Hubin, p.175.