London: William Heinemann, 1955.First Edition. 140pp. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: NEAR FINE. Publisher's promotional card laid in. 

A novella by Graham Greene dealing with romance and gambling. Greene was an English writer and journalist, regarded by many as the leading English novelist in the twentieth century. He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966 and 1967, and was awarded with the Shakespeare prize in 1968, and the Jerusalem Prize in 1981.