Until the Day she Dies. A Tale of Terror poem bound as an Eton College

bound as an Eton College leaving gift

New York: Alfred Knopf

A near fine copy of this classic Greene Secret Service novel set in Cuba and adopted for film in 1959 by Carol Reed starring Alec Guinness as Wormold

Originally published privately in 1837 by Rudolph Ackerman for Lawrence Rawstorne

drawings and pastels by Whistler and Joseph Pennell

Until the Day she Dies. A Tale of Terror poem bound as an Eton CollegeLondon: Hamish Hamilton, 1960. First Edition, first impression. Publisher's red cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust jacket which is lightly rubbed at the edges and ends of the spine. Without old inscriptions or other internal markings. A near fine copy. Pulpish thriller very much in the style of Dashiell Hammett involving a detective story writer and a young woman he meets on the London Oxford train. The English writer and dandy, Julian