The Collected Editions

Graham Greene wrote and published over two dozen novels. I’ve read almost all of them, the main exception being his first two. Those two have been out-of-print for decades and he refused to allow them to be republished. His other novels have been reprinted many times, by several publishing houses, in hard-bound and paperback formats.

My copies of the novels are paperback and were published by Vintage books and Penguin Classics. Since I’ve had some of them for about twenty years now, and have reread and searched through them several times, the so-called perfect bindings are coming apart. Therefore, I’d like to replace them with better copies. However, there aren’t any

Starting in 1970, the publishing company, William Heinemann, Ltd. republished almost all of Graham Greene’s novels — in addition to some short stories — a couple each year until 1982, for a total of twenty-two books. These were all with hard covers and fine paper and printing. As they no longer print them, obtaining copies is costly and a challenge.

Book Title	1st Pub.	C.E.	Own/Ordered
1, Brighton Rock	1938	1970	own
2, It’s a Battlefield	1934	1970	biblio
3, England Made Me	1935	1970	own
4, Our Man in Havana	1938	1970	own
5, The Power and the Glory	1940		own
6, The Heart of the Matter	1948	1971
7, The Confidential Agent	1939	1971	own
8, Collected Stories		1972	own
9, A Gun for Sale	1936	1973	own
10, The Ministry of Fear	1943	1973	amazon
11, The Quiet American	1955	1973
12, Stamboul Train	1932	1974	own
13, The End of the Affair	1951	1974	own
14, A Burntout Case	1960	1974	biblio
15, The Man Within	1929
16, The Third Man. Loser Takes All	1949	1976	own
17, The Comedians	1966	1976	own
18, Journey without Maps	1936	1978	own
19, The Lawless Roads	1939
20, Travels with my Aunt	1969	1980
21, The Honorary Consul	1973
22, The Human Factor	1978	1978	own

These editions are not in order by date published, although they are numbered. Each book in the series was sub-titled, The Collected Edition — hence the heading, C.E. for its publication year. The Bodley Head Ltd. was another imprint of Heinemann. Some editions of this series may be published as Heinemann or Bodley Head. Incidentally, the last column states whether I own a copy or from where I may have ordered a copy.

Remaining Other Editions

The twenty-two books published in the series above do not include all of Graham Greenes novels. Perhaps Heinemann intended to publish them all, but stopped as their was not enough sales to justify the less popular ones that remained. However, Bodley Head did publish them in the same size and similar binding. Below is a list of them:

Book Title	1st Pub.	O.E.	Own/Ordered
Collected Essays	1969	1969	own
The Captain and the Enemy	1988	1988	own
Monsignor Quixote	1982	1982	own
Tenth Man	1985	1985	own
Doctor Fischer Of Geneva	1980	1980	own
A Sort of Life	1971	1971	own
Ways of Escape	1980	1980	own
No Mans Land	1949	2005	own

The last book listed here, No Mans Land was published by Hesperus Press. The column heading, O.E. stands for Other Edition.

As you can see, I’m trying to get copies of all of these: I’ve already ordered them through a few used booksellers on-line.