New York: Pantheon, 1957

8vo, pp. 222. Original white hessian boards, initialled in brown, black spine lettered in gilt. Price-clipped dustwrapper, with slight wear to edges and spine ends. A near fine copy.

First edition in English, first published as Le Malfaiteur in Paris the previous year.

'Julian Green has chosen as his theme one of the gravest of moral problems and explored it with the greatest of subtlety: the guilt and responsibility of a man who through his nature is forced to live a lie that cruelly affects the life of others. In the natural world of men and women, he is the transgressor, caught in an insoluble dilemma.'

A tight, bright copy.