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

263 c   GREENE, GRAHAM. The Quiet American. 8vo, publisher’s cream wrappers printed in red, few soft creases; publisher’s slip signed by Sales Manager and dated 7 October 1955 laid in; custom chemise and ¼ leather folding box (scuffed, unevenly faded). advance uncorrected proof . Wobbe A35. London: Heinemann, (1956) [but 1955] [600/900] with — Another copy. 8vo, publisher’s cloth; dust jacket, spine panel toned with splits along folds, scattered soiling. First edition, second printing, Inscribed “For Anne Slayton - I’m so glad Peter [Glenville] introduced us - from Graham Greene Jan. 26, 1955. Albany, Piccadilly, London w.1.” London, (1955). 264 c   GREENE,GRAHAM. Reflections on Travels With My Aunt. 8vo, publisher’s wrappers, small stain to front wrap, minor rubbing to spine head and bottom corners. limited edition , one of 250 copies signed by the author . presentation copy , addi - tionaly inscribed to greene ’ s primary love interest for the last thirty years of his life.“ForYvonne [Cloetta] with all my love / Time for Scrabble. / Graham.” NewYork: Firsts & Company, 1989 [400/600] 265 c   GREENE, GRAHAM. A Sense of Reality. 8vo, publisher’s green cloth; dust jacket,trace of rubbing to fold corners;Edward Sackville-West bookplate and ownership inscription. first edition , inscribed : “For Eddie [Sackville-West] / with love from Graham.” Friends since their college days, Sackville-West contributed a story to The Oxford Outlook, a student publication for which Greene was the assistant editor.Wobbe A45a. London:The Bodley Head, (1963) [400/600] 266 c   GREENE, GRAHAM. The Ship- wrecked. 8vo, publisher’s cloth; dust jacket, shallow chipping to spine panel tips and fold corners, irregular toning, short closed tears. reissue of the 1935 edition , inscribed to producer/director Peter Glenville:“For Peter in the hope you haven’t read it, & the wilder hope that you may like it.With great affec- tion, Graham.The photo on the back which I can’t remember being taken obviously shows me worrying about Binkie.” Hugh “Binkie” Beaumont produced Greene’s plays The Pot- ting Shed and The Complaisant Lover. A reissue after the original 1935 edition, which was published as England Made Me. NewYork:Viking, 1953 [600/900] with — Mère Angleterre. 8vo, publisher’s wrappers, glassine dust jacket. First French edition, number 44 of 60 copies, Signed and Inscribed by Greene. Paris, (1948). 265 263 266