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

256 c   GREENE, GRAHAM. The Man Within. 8vo, publisher’s black cloth, spine titles gilt, minimal spine lean, small blemish to rear board; dust jacket, spine panel and flap folds darkened, moderate dust soiling; bookplate to front pastedown, scattered foxing to textblock edges as usual. first edition of greene ’ s first novel . With the first issue dust jacket priced 7/6, the front flap announcing this book, the rear flap advertising ‘The Painted Face,’ and the rear panel advertising three Heinemann publications.Wobbe A2a. London: Heinemann, (1929) [3,000/4,000] with — Autograph Letter Signed (6½ x 5 inches, recto only, dated 29 Dec 1929, mailing fold with original envelope). 1 page letter to the author’s uncle, R.N. Green-Armytage, laid in. “[...] I have been skipping backwards & forwards between here [Crowborough] & London, & am now at last temporarily at rest, honest work all but over - the cold, but lighter labour, of deluding the public not yet begun [...] Much love from us both to all of you, Graham Greene.”