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GREENE, GRAHAM.
Brighton Rock.
8vo, original printed wrappers, spine
slightly faded with a small chip at upper extremity, faint finger soiling; preserved in custom
drop-back case.
London: Heinemann, (1938)
[8,000/12,000]
UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY WITH A SHORT SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION BY
GREENE
on the title-page. According to Wobbe, “...the novel was written under circumstances
not unlike those surrounding his earlier books. He was still not out of debt to the publisher and
his novels were not yet bringing in enough money to live on.” It is not unreasonable then to
speculate that the number of proofs Heinemann distributed were relatively low. A scarce advance
copy of one of the high points of Greene’s oeuvre. Wobbe, p. 42.
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GREENE, GRAHAM.
The Power and the Glory.
8vo, publisher’s cloth, small
bump to top of front cover; dust jacket, spots of discoloration, few nicks along upper folds,
thin line of age-toning along upper edge; large bookplate on front pastedown.
FIRST EDI
-
TION
, second impression dust jacket with “Second Large Printing” indicated at bottom of
front flap with price inact below.
London: Heinemann, (1940)
[400/600]
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GUTHRIE, A.B., JR.
The Way West.
8vo, publisher’s cloth, slightly shaken,
spine tips fraying, some soiling to boards, dampstain to upper edges onto boards; dust
jacket, few short closed tears, horizontal crease, small abrasions on flaps; age-toning to
pastedown edges.
FIRST EDITION
,
SIGNED
. Guthrie’s sequel to his 1947 novel The Big Sky.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the Best Novel of 1950.
New York: William Sloane, (1949)
[400/600]
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