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The Bear Fell Free.
London: Grayson and Grayson, 1935. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Slim octavo (22 x 15cm). One of the titles in "The Grayson Books" series, a collection of signed limited editions by notable authors. Publisher's gilt decorated green-brown cloth, illustrated endpapers, cream and blue dust-wrapper. Boards a little bowed, jacket with..... More
The Bear Fell Free.
London: Grayson and Grayson, 1935. [Modern Literature] PROOF COPY. Slim octavo (22 x 15cm), unpaginated. Bound in plain brown paper wraps, titled in ink to upper. Minor wear to spine, light handling; near fine. Published in an edition limited to 250 copies, yet only a handful of softcover proofs would..... More
The Complaisant Lover. A Play.
London: Heinemann. 1959. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.77. Publisher's blue cloth in pale green printed dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. A fine, unread copy in similar jacket with some accidental rubbing to the edges of the front panel. A bright example of this Graham Greene comedy, the third..... More
The End of the Affair.
London: William Heinemann, 1951. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 237 [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the white and grey dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Endpapers browned; some sunning to head and tail of spine. Jacket browned to spine, with losses to head..... More
Introductions to Three Novels.
Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag, 1962. [Literary Essays] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (20 x 12cm), pp.48 [4]. Publisher's soft covers, with titles printed in colour to spine and upper. Edges untrimmed. A near fine copy showing a little light wear and toning to covers. A curious item released by the..... More
The Living Room. A Play in Two Acts.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1953. FIRST EDITION: Octavo. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, neat ownership to flyleaf. Original pictorial dust jacket; lightly worn,with a few small chips. Now rather elusive. Graham Greene's first play, a melodrama. WOBBE, R.A, "Graham Greene - A Bibliography and Guide to Research"..... More
May We Borrow Your Husband? And Other Comedies of the Sexual Life.
London: The Bodley Head, 1967. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY in publisher's printed yellow wraps. Clipped at first flyleaf. Externally fine, with minimal creasing to spine. Remarkably clean throughout. Twelve entertaining short stories from Greene, which were received with acclaim. More
A Sense of Reality.
London: The Bodley Head, 1963. [Short stories]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.140. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket. Minor handling; a very good copy. Greene's only fantasy collection; a selection of unusual tales, two of the stories which take their 'reality' from the dream state; 'Under the..... More
A Sense of Reality. Short Stories.
The Bodley Head, London, 1963. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.140. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket. A clean, bright, near fine copy. Greene's only fantasy collection; a selection of unusual tales, two of the stories which take their 'reality' from the dream state; 'Under the Garden' and 'Dream of a...... More
The Tenth Man.
London: The Bodley Head and Anthony Blond, 1985. Uncorrected Proof. Octavo. pp158. Publisher's yellow paper covers with titles in black to front cover and spine. Nominal rubbing to corners, internally pristine; in sum, a very attractive copy. An utterly gripping story of a wealthy French lawyer being held prisoner by..... More
The Tenth Man.
New York, NY: Simon And Schuster, 1985. [Thriller] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.155; [1], blank. Publisher's printed yellow wraps with price and publication date written on upper. Very good, with dampmark throughout. An utterly gripping story of a wealthy French lawyer being held prisoner by the Germans during..... More
The Tenth Man. Contained within a supplement to 'You' (The Mail on Sunday magazine).
London: 1985. FIRST APPEARANCE. Thriller. A 2-part periodical. Publisher's fragile pictorial softcovers, magazine format. Complete in two issues. Near fine. An utterly gripping story of a wealthy French lawyer being held prisoner by the Germans during World War II. Precedes the Bodley Head book-form edition, which was published in March..... More
Three Plays. The Living Room, The Potting Shed, and The Complaisant Lover.
London: Mercury Books / Heinemann, 1961. [Drama] FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION, GREENE FAMILY COPY, INSCRIBED by the author to his wife. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.237; [2], blank. Publisher's softcovers. With presentation note to flyleaf; For Vivien / with love from / Graham [underlined]. Light handling and soiling, spine toned; near..... More
The Encounter.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1951. Octavo. Bound in publisher's red cloth, with titles in black to spine. Front cover of dust wrapper shows abstract pattern in black, red, and white, with titles in white, likewise spine, rear cover shows publisher's advertisements for other titles; unprice-clipped, originally priced at 12s 6d..... More
Men. A Dialogue Between Women. Translated from the French by Vyvyan Holland, with a Prefatory letter by Graham Greene. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
London: Cresset Press, 1955. INSCRIBED First Edition in English. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.95 [1]. INSCRIBED by the translator, Vyvyan Holland, to the author, publisher and critic Alec Waugh in blue ink to front free endpaper: 'For Alec / who knows / far more / about this / subject than..... More
The Life of Graham Greene: Volume One, 1904-1939 [together with] Volume Two, 1939-1955 [and] Volume Three, 1955-1991.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1989, 1994, 2004. [Literary Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes, large octavo (24 x 16 x 16cm). With three suites of black and white photographs within each volume. Publisher's cloth hardcovers in jacket. Inscribed by the late Norman Sherry to title pages in blue ink 'For Edward..... More
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