Sale 2530 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, February 20, 2020

245 c   GREENE, GRAHAM. Babbling April. 8vo, publisher’s grey boards stamped in blue, tiny gouge to top edge near spine; dust jacket, spine panel tanned with shallow chips to head and foot, some rubbing to folds, light soiling; offsetting to endpapers. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925 [5,000/7,500] first edition of greene ’ s first book , intimate association copy inscribed to his first mistress : “For Dorothy [Glover] / with love & gratitude / for many things, but / especially for Aug-Sept / 1951 / from Graham.”A collection of poems published when Greene was 21 and an undergraduate at Oxford.“A printing of 500 copies was planned but [...] only 300 or so were ever issued [...] Neither the book nor any of the poems have been reprinted.”Wobbe A1.