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Greene, Graham. May we borrow your husband?. Bodley Head, 1967.
Price: US$258.72 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Number 244 of 500 signed by the author and specifically bound. Quarter cloth, patterned boards. A Fine copy in excellent condition. Pre-title page bears a dedication and signature from previous owner in ink. Overall an excellent edition of this collection of Greene short stories, collectible and in excellent condition. Fantastic as a gift, or an addition to the library of the enthusiast.
Seller: Burley Fisher Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$291.06 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Patterned paper boards. Near fine copy.One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$291.06 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 188 pages. Cloth-backed patterned boards. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. Slight bump to head of spine, otherwise fine. Lacks the original tissue dustwrapper.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$323.40 + shipping
Description: Original green cloth Special Ltd Edition SIGNED copy This being 365/500 188pp A FINE Copy
Seller: E.J Morten Booksellers BA, MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
Greene, Graham. May We Borrow Your Husband ?. Bodley Head, London, 1967.
Price: US$323.40 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No 152 of 500 numbered copies signed by the author and specially bound Quarter cloth, patterned boards Fine copy in original glassine wrapper. A fine copy in near new condition.
Seller: Krokodile Books, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo. Green cloth spine with gilt lettering and green patterned paper over boards, acetate jacket. 188pp. Fine/fine. Lacks the often-absent tissue wrapper. Superbly tight and handsome first edition of this short story collection, limited to 500 numbered copies (this #322) signed by Greene in blue in his usual minute script. A lovely copy. Scarce.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Greene, Graham. May We Borrow You Husband?. Bodley Head, 1967.
Price: US$388.08 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed, limited and numbered edition (244/500). Ownership inscription on front free endpaper is the only thing that stops this copy from being completely pristine. No fading, yellowing or spotting.
Seller: Burley Fisher Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$452.05 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo. 8vo. 188pp. One quarter green cloth over patterned paper boards. Edition of 500 copies, this is no. 174. Signed by Graham Greene. Light rubbing to the corners, corners of acetate jacket chipped, but overall a near fine copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$582.13 + shipping
Description: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION (430/500). 8vo (19.5 x 13 cm), pp. 188. Green cloth spine with gilt lettering and green patterned paper over boards; mylar wrapping. "Of this book first published in April 1967 a numbered edition of 500 copies has been specially printed and bound and signed by Grahame Greene. This is number 430." A fine copy, contents clean and crisp.
Seller: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Number 129 of 500. This book is in Fine. The Hardbound is NOT in the original tissue jacket but is in an archival cover. The only two flaws include a small dark dot stain to the back spine, and soil staining on the top text block from shelving. Otherwise, it is a beautify limited edition signed by Graham Greene! "If you have never before read Graham Greene, then you need to read him now. With the same sense of humor as P. G. Wodehouse and the same innate curiosity about sex, gender and social mores as Oscar Wilde, he delights in this collection of stories May We Borrow Your Husband? and other comedies of the sexual life published in 1967. These are stories about sexuality, about obsessions and desires, about the often-confused way in which we go about interacting with people we love or lust after. Most of these stories are recounted via the first-person narrative usually a middle-aged man observing others which makes you feel even more so than usual that this must have been what was on his mind at the time. Greene is not shy about discussing stereotypes as they exist or about lampooning people who live up to them or use them liberally. He does so to show the reader the inanity of what we do and that quite often our emotional feeling and behavior is not borne out of logic or the reality of a situation no matter how much we would like to believe it is."
Seller: Sigma Books, Sheridan, WY, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarter drab green cloth, gilt, on patterned boards. Interior crisp and clean. Limited First edition (24 of 500), signed by the author on the limitations page. Contains twelve short tales of different entertainments. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1099.57 + shipping
Description: Signed & inscribed by author to titlepage - "Good Wishes/Graham Greene" First edition, first printing. 8vo. Green cloth boards with gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper. A very good+ copy with clean boards. Small mark at foot of spine. Some occasional spotting. Thimble sized mark to foot of gutter hinge on endpaper & less so at foot on further few leaves. No inscriptions. The near fine dustwrapper is bright with light wear & a couple of short closed tears. Original price of 21s net on front flap. An attractive copy with a very bright spine of a Greene title rarely found signed in first trade edition. Affairs, obsessions, grand passions and tiny ardours .this collection contains some of Greene's saddest observations on the hilarity of sex.
Seller: Julian Roberts Fine Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
GREENE, Graham. MAY WE BORROW YOUR HUSBAND and Other Comedies of the Sexual Life. Bodley Head, 1967.
Price: US$1940.42 + shipping
Description: First edition. Number 17 of 500 copies specially bound and signed by Greene. Author's presentation copy, further inscribed to the title page to John and Gillian Sutro, "For John + Gillian with love from an exile from shepherd's pie + friendship, but love grows in exile. Graham". Original green cloth over patterned paper covered boards in publisher's clear glassine. A fine copy. A fine association copy, inscribed by Greene to some of his closest friends in later life. John Sutro was a film producer and Gillian, a fashion journalist, described by Nancy Mitford as "one of the ten best dressed women in England", combined film and fashion. Sutro had known Evelyn Waugh at Oxford and his literary circle included Arthur Koestler, Christopher Sykes, John Sparrow and Jean Cocteau. The Sutros were introduced to Greene in the 1950 and became close friends. They were near neighbours in Antibes and each corresponded independently with him, Gillian helping him through his tumultuous affair with Yvette Cloetta.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom