SANDER, Allegra, [GREENE, Graham, preface]; [HOLLAND, Vyvyan, translator]; [PEAKE, Mervyn, illustrator]. Men. A Dialogue Between Women. Translated from the French by Vyvyan Holland, with a Prefatory letter by Graham Greene. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake. London: Cresset Press, 1955, 1955.

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Description: INSCRIBED First Edition in English. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.95 [1]. INSCRIBED by the translator, Vyvyan Holland, to the author, publisher and critic Alec Waugh in blue ink to front free endpaper: 'For Alec / who knows / far more / about this / subject than / any of us / from Vyvyan / april 24. 1956.' Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine and blue box on upper board. Tobacco scent; spine toned. Very good. Written by one of Greene's mistresses, and translated from the original French by Oscar Wilde's son Vyvyan. This cutting dialogue between a younger and an older woman lays bare the psychology of men in their relationships with women, and the strategies women have developed to take what advantages they can.

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