9780886190767 - Getting to Know the General First edition by Greene, Graham (1984) Hardcover de Greene-graham (30 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condición: Used - Good. First Edition. some light wear. stains on top edge. in a good jacket. Very readable copy.

Condición: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. A good hardcover in a good dust jacket. Has markings.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Canadian edition hardcover with dust jacket, published by the Canadian publisher, Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1984. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. Greene's account of his first meeting and subsequent friendship with Omar Torrijos, at the time the General who had taken power in Panama in 1968. Published after the death of Torrijos in a plane crash in 1980. Green cloth covered boards, with the author name and title imprinted on the spine in gold. Boards are flat, the corners are not bumped or creased. Jacket is intact and is not price clipped. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages.Edges of the text do show some foxing spots. First flyleaf has an former price in pencil at the top right, erased and smudged. This is not a library copy, not a remainder. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. Canadian First. Minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Light spot on bottom fore edge, otherwise in good condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight carefully read copy. This copy has some light soil to the text block else fine. Unpriced jacket which I believe was a practice of this publisher. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. Book.

Half-Leather. Condición: Fair. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 224 pages. May require extra postage. Size: 8vo - 7.75" - 9.75" tall. Used.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Hardcover in jacket. Clean and unmarked. Binding strong. Light wear. Photos available upon request.

hardcover with dustjacket. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. No names or markings. Remainder mark at the bottom. Printed in Great Britain. ; 5 3/4"-8 3/4"; 224 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Lester & Orpen Dennys, Toronto, 1984, Hardcover First Canadian Edition, printed in the UK. Book is Very Good plus, several pages open easy and there are a few marks on the board, otherwise a clean unmarked copy. Dustjacket is Near Fine but with a small chip out on the rear near the spine - see photos - dj comes in a removable, archival, mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Hard cover with unclipped dust jacket, both in very good condition. General shelf and handling wear, including light tanning and creasing to dust jacket and edges. Minor tanning to pageblock. Green cloth boards are in fine condition, pages tightly bound, content unmarked. CN.

Hardcover. Condición: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Unbound Signatures. Condición: Near Fine Plus. First Canadian Edition. Notation in ink on the first page, the half title page. A curiosity: all seven of the signatures that would, if bound up, make the complete printed portion of the Canadian edition of this book. Printed in Great Britain, with only the title page and copyright page different from the UK edition published by Bodley Head. Author's account of a five-year personal involvement with Omar Torrijos, ruler of Panama from 1968-1981. 224 pages.

8vo. [224pp.] Original boards and d/w. ISBN 0886190762 US$15.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. A very good copy with gift inscription on fly leaf in a fine dust jacket. Pp. 223. The meetings of Greene and Panamanian General Omar Torrijos. Canadian edition.

Hardcover. This book is an account of the visit by the author to Panama at the invitation of the dictator and of the friendship that continued through subsequent visits. This is based on the author's diaries. From Wikipedia: "Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH (2 October 1904 3 April 1991) was an English writer, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Greene was notable for his ability to combine serious literary acclaim with widespread popularity. Although Greene objected strongly to being described as a Roman Catholic novelist rather than as a novelist who happened to be Catholic, Catholic religious themes are at the root of much of his writing, especially the four major Catholic novels: Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter and The End of the Affair. Several works such as The Confidential Agent, The Third Man, The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana and The Human Factor also show an avid interest in the workings of international politics and espionage. Greene suffered from bipolar disorder, which had a profound effect on his writing and personal life. In a letter to his wife Vivien, he told her that he had "a character profoundly antagonistic to ordinary domestic life", and that "unfortunately, the disease is also one's material". William Golding described Greene as "the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety." Greene never received the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he finished runner-up to Ivo Andri in 1961.Throughout his life Greene travelled far from England, to what he called the world's wild and remote places. The travels led to him being recruited into MI6 by his sister, Elisabeth, who worked for the organisation; and he was posted to Sierra Leone during the Second World War. Kim Philby, who would later be revealed as a Soviet agent, was Greene's supervisor and friend at MI6. As a novelist he wove the characters he met and the places where he lived into the fabric of his novels." Also from Wikipedia: "Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera (February 13, 1929 July 31, 1981) was the Commander of the Panamanian and National Guard and the de facto leader of Panama from 1968 to 1981. Torrijos was never officially the president of Panama, but instead held titles including "Maximum Leader of the Panamanian Revolution" and "Supreme Chief of Government." Although he was considered a leftist autocrat, he simultaneously had the support of the United States as he opposed communism. His politics were based instead on progressivism. Torrijos is best known for negotiating the 1977 Torrijos Carter Treaties that eventually gave Panama full sovereignty over the Panama Canal, at noon on December 31, 1999. His son Martín Torrijos was elected president and served from 2004 to 2009. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Presumed first Canadian edition/first printing.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Canadian edition. 224pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

hardback. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 223 p. ; 23 cm. Bibliography: p. 163-165.

hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

[0-88619-076-2] [1984], 1st Canadian Edition. (Hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 223pp. Book about Omar Torrijos. Locale: Central America; Panama. (Fiction, Generals, Travel and Adventure).

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover.

Condición: New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Public Good (DJ) Ilustrador. No Edition Stated, Presumed 1st. Foreword by Greene. Book divisions: Part I - 1976, Part II - 1977, Part III - 1978, Part IV - 222 pp. .1979 and 1980. plus Postscript. Book has fo stamp ffep, ow , it is as new. Bookseller's Inventory # 232295.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. No Edition Stated. A short personal memoir of General Omar Torrijos based on diaries kept by Greene over the span of the five years of their friendship. 222 pp. plus Postscript. Bookseller's Inventory # 081847.

Hard Cover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. BOOK: Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Story of an Involvement. JACKET DESIGN: Public Good. CONTENTS: Foreword; Part I, 1976; Part II, 1977; Part III, 1978; Part IV, 1979 and 1980; Epilogue; Postscript. SYNOPSIS: In the winter of 1976, Graham Greene was invited to Panama by Omar Torrijos, the charismatic general who had taken power in 1968. His book is an account of that visit and the friendship that continued through subsequent visits. Graham Greene's penetrating and moving descriptions of Panama and its people reconfirm his mastery of travel writing, and the extraordinary Torrijos--complex, courageous, deeply democratic and profoundly human--emerges as one of the most fascinating characters in all of Graham Greene's books. Graham Greene writes in his Preface: "In August 1981 my bag was packed for my fifth visit to Panama when the news came to me over the telephone of the death of General Omar Torrijos Herrera, my friend and host. The small plane in which he was flying to a house which he owned at Coclesito in the mountains of Panama had crashed, and there were no survivors. A few days later the voice of his security guard, Sergeant Chuchu, alias Jose de Jesus Martinez, ex-Professor of Marxist Philosophy at Panama University, Professor of Mathematics and a poet, told me, 'There was a bomb in the plane. I know there was a bomb in the plane, but I can't tell you why over the telephone.' "At that moment the idea came to me to write a short personal memoir, based on the diaries which I had kept over the last five years, as a tribute to a man whom during that time I had grown to love. But as soon as I had written the first sentences after the title, Getting to Know the General, I realized that it was not only the General whom I had got to know over those five years--it was also Chuchu, perhaps the only man in the National Guard whom the General trusted completely, and it was this bizarre and beautiful little country, split in two by the Canal and the American Zone, a country which had become, thanks to the General, of great practical importance in the struggle for liberation taking place in Nicaragua and El Salvador." Graham Greene was born in 1904 in Berkhamsted, England. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.