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London, Heinemann, 1955. . First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, blue topstain a little faded, spine slightly cocked, with the unclipped dust-jacket, somewhat tanned, a few nicks to extremities, else very good. First edition with the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'To Marcelle with love & thanks from Graham'. The recipient was Marcelle Sibon, Greene's chief French translator with whom he worked from the late 1940s until his death. Presentation copies of this central work in Greene's canon are not common.

The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by English author Graham Greene. It portrays the conflict between American and British intelligence agents dealing with the insurgents in Vietnam during the French Indochina War.