The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
First American edition, first printing of Greene's classic novel detailing a life-changing moral crisis. Ranked among the top 100 English-language novels by both the Modern Library and Time Magazine and basis for the 1953 movie starring Trevor Howard.
New York: The Viking Press, 1948. Publisher's original maroon boards over grey cloth spine, lettered and stamped in red; pp. (x), 306. A very good copy in a very good unclipped dust jacket. Binding sturdy, light shelfwear and rubbing to board extremities. Light crease to the first few pages, a couple scattered small stains to pages, else internally clean. Jacet shows some general light shelfwear, minor puncture to spine. Protected in archival mylar.