Description: 16mo, 20.2 x 13.5 cm, bound in blue buckram with gilt lettering to spine, in dust jacket lettered to front, spine, back, and flaps, price 13s6d net uncut; front has red letters “BGS” in the bottom right (probably stands for Book Grading Service); 1^st edition.

Title-page: THE | QUIET AMERICAN | by | GRAHAM GREENE | {publisher’s device} |—| WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD | MELBOURNE :: LONDON :: TORONTO ||

T.p. verso: FIRST PUBLISHED 1955 | PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN | AT THE WINDMILL PRESS | KINGSWOOD, SURREY ||

Collation: [A]-H16; total 128 leaves.

Pagination: [8] [2] 3-247 [248]; total 256 pages.

Contributors:

Graham Greene (British, 1904 – 1991)

William Henry Heinemann (Jewish-British, 1863 – 1920)