Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$420.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First and only edition of this beautiful miniature book. Travel writing on China, signed by both Graham Greene and Stephen Spender who wrote the afterword. Limited to 330 copies, 300 numbered, 26 lettered and 4 bearing the name of a recipient. Rumour has it that because of material issues only about half of the total print run was ultimately bound for sale. Printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh on Arches paper. Book is handbound in Japanese side stitch style with bone pearl charm in emerald green silk boards, housed in Hako Chitsu inspired box with gold leaf and bone hook enclosure. Numbered 175 out of 300 numbered copies. 47 numbered pages, quarto, green silk boards approx. 3"x3" with gold leaf paste downs and end papers. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.
Seller: The Great Catsby's Rare Books, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Edition. Green silk cloth, as new in publisher's slipcase. This is an "unnumbered copy." Signed by Graham Greene and Stephen Spender. A MINIATURE BOOK.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First and only printing of this title. Signed by Greene and Stephen Spender who wrote the introduction. Limited to 330 signed copies, though rumour has it a material shortage led to a much smaller number being bound. This is one of four special copies that bear the name of a recipient, this being reserved for the author Graham Greene himself. Bound in beautiful rough weave ruby silk with mottled gold leaf end papers, traditional Japanese side stitch Coptic binding with charm, housed in a Solander box of the same silk and with same gold leaf paste downs. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.
Seller: The Great Catsby's Rare Books, Edmonton, AB, Canada