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71. Stamboul Train GREENE, Graham
Heinemann, 1932. First edition. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in stylish pictorial dustwrapper designed by Youngman Carter. A near fine copy with bookplate to front pastedown, in a very good dustwrapper indeed with a little wear to the head of the spine and two short closed tears. [44630] £5,000 The author’s fourth novel, and his first to gain commercial and critical success, takes the form of a thriller set on the Orient Express (the American edition is entitled Orient Express, and there was a film adaptation of the novel in 1934 of the same name). PROVENANCE: Bernie Taupin (Lyricist and noted book collector. Blind stamp to front endpaper).
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