"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
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 fine. This volume is also the first uncensored edition; Greene's postscript at end, in light of a more relaxed view on homosexuality, notes that "readers of this play may have a little fun determining which solitary adjective and which passage of three lines Lord Chamberlain and his officers have found too indecent for the theatre" Item #50907
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