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My Graham Greene collection continues with a first edition "Collected Stories," published by Viking in 1972.
"It's a Battlefield" is a 1962 Viking Press reprint of a 1934 novel.
This is unfortunately merely a third edition of Greene's great love story (or hate story, according to the protagonist) "The End of the Affair" published by Viking in 1951.
Finally, another first edition with "Lord Rochester's Monkey," which Greene wrote in the 1930s, but was not published by Viking until 1974.
First Edition BooksThe first edition refers to a book's first printing run. For some blockbust…