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Description: In gathering research for two novels set in Africa ( A Burnt-Out Case and The Heart of the Matter) Greene kept two journals that were never intended for publication, but appear here in print for the first time. The book is nearly fine with a light touch of fading to the red spine; the near fine dw is lightly soiled on the spine, with a 1 and 1/2 inch cut on the front panel neatly repaired with conservators tape on the verso. Greene has briefly INSCRIBED the book on the title page.
Seller: Tom Davidson, Bookseller, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
GREENE, Graham. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, 1961.
Price: US$1929.42 + shipping
Description: First edition. Quarter bound in red cloth with grey papered boards in a decorative dustwrapper. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the title page, "For Moura with love from Graham" A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed to Baroness Moura Budberg, Ukraine-born socialite and double agent for Russia and Britain during the WW1 who was imprisoned in 1918 under suspicion of spying for the British. She was briefly H.G. Wells' mistress and came to live in England in 1933. Possibly through Wells or through his own links with the European intelligence services, Greene was helped by Budberg to gather information for his 1934 trip to the Baltic states. The pair struck up a long sustained friendship and met and corresponded thereafter.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
GREENE, Graham. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER Two African Journals. The Bodley Head, 1961.
Price: US$1929.42 + shipping
Description: First edition. Quarter red cloth with grey papered boards in a decorative dustwrapper. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the title page, "For Harold Rubinstein from Graham Greene". A fine copy in a very near fine dustwrapper, slightly faded to the spine. Harold Rubinstein was Graham Greene's solicitor whose firm of Rubinstein, Nash & Co. specialised in defending publishers and authors and acted for Greene between 1946 and 1985. Rubinstein notably came to Greene's aid in acting as an intermediary and confidant when, in 1953, the Vatican wrote to the Archbishop of Westminster to recommend that Greene's novel, The Power And The Glory not be allowed to be reprinted or further translated until passages regarding Catholicism were changed. The two journals of the title are the authors Congo Journal and his Convoy to West Africa.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom