First US edition of this early Graham Greene novel, uncommon in the dustjacket. Greene later described it as his 'first overtly political novel', saying its theme is 'the injustice of man's justice.'

First US edition, first impression; 8vo; short score mark to front free endpaper, else unmarked internally; publisher's brownish-pink cloth, with black basket weave design on spine and title diagonal on a black ground, black topstain, fore-edge uncut, in the original unclipped pictorial dustjacket; a very nice copy in the slightly marked and rubbed dustjacket with a few nicks to extremities and stain to verso of spine panel.

Miller 11b.