Greene, Graham and Carol Reed

8vo, first edition of the film script, THE AUTHOR'S OWN PERSONAL FILE COPY WITH PUBLISHER'S STICKER ON FRONT ENDPAPER "NOT FOR SALE", SIGNED BY GREENE ON THE TITLE PAGE AND WITH A SIGNED LETTER OF CERTIFICATION LOOSELY INSERTED ("...This is to certify that this copy of | The Third Man | is my personal file copy, and bears my ownership signature | Graham Greene...Antibes, March 1990"), photographs from the film, original pictorial paper covers also with images from the film, preserved in specially designed Sangorski and Sutcliffe black morocco folding box, lettered in red morocco on spine and upper panel and with grey and white inlays creating pictorial image of Orson Welles as Harry Lime

Wobbe A51a

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GRAHAM GREENE'S OWN RETAINED COPY OF HIS AND CAROL REED'S SCREENPLAY FOR ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED FILMS OF ALL TIME. It is Greene's only original screenplay, and, despite the author's great body of work over six decades, remains his most popular quoted work. The famous "Cuckoo-clock" speech, uttered by Welles as Harry Lime as he and Martins revolve in the Great Wheel over ruined post-war Vienna, was not part of the original screenplay (it was allegedly added by Welles during the course of filming) but is included here as a footnote.