A Gun for Sale — Graham Greene

Author: Graham Greene

Publisher: Penguin Books

Format: Paperback

Edition: First published by William Heinemann Ltd, 1936. Published in Penguin Books, 1963. Reset and reprinted from the Collected Edition, 1974. This copy is a 1977 Penguin reprint.

ISBN: 0140018964

Condition: Second-hand paperback. Noticeable vintage wear, including staining and foxing to the front cover, back cover and spine, edge wear, rubbing, creasing, age toning to pages and general handling marks. Binding appears intact. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

A Gun for Sale is one of Graham Greene’s early “entertainments”, a dark crime novel centred on Raven, a hired killer who becomes both hunter and hunted after being paid in stolen notes. Moving through betrayal, murder, political corruption and revenge, the novel has the tight pacing of a thriller while carrying the moral unease that became central to Greene’s fiction.