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GREENE, Graham.. Travels with my Aunt. A Novel.. The Bodley Head, London., 1969.
Price: US$1872.58 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 319 pages.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ''For David Posner from Graham Greene''. Before the recipient's name Greene has scribbled to illegibility a previous name. David Posner was a poet and noted book collector.Some foxing to endpapers. Head and tail of spine slightly pushed. Very good in very good dustwrapper a bit nicked and rubbed at the edges.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
GREENE, Graham. Travels With My Aunt.. London: The Bodley Head, 1969., 1969.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., inscribed on the title-page "With thanks for everything from Graham Greene", hardbound, publisher's original gilt lettered green cloth, with the original DJ, not price clipped, mild foxing to front blank endleaf, rear blank endleaf creased, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, overall VG/VG+. A somewhat difficult title to get inscribed. We have found only 5 other copies sold at auction since 1976.
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.
GREENE, Graham.. Travels with my Aunt.. London: The Bodley Head, 1969, 1969.
Price: US$4520.02 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the title page "For Marcelle with love from Graham". This is the first of Greene's novels for which the recipient, Marcelle Sibon, was not the French translator: she had decided to stop after struggling with May We Borrow Your Husband (1967), having translated all of Greene's previous novels from Brighton Rock (1947) onwards. Sibon is best-known for her translations of Greene's works, including The Power and the Glory, for which she won the Grand Prix Halperine-Kaminsky in 1948. She "decided to call it a day after translating May We Borrow Your Husband, in which the strange, contemporary language of the title story - the sort used in homosexual milieux - was totally alien to her" (Clottea, p. 88). At the request of Marie Biche, Greene's French literary agent, author Yvonne Cloetta (Greene's long-time lover) continued work on the translation. Green presented a copy of the book to her, inscribed "For Yvonne, who worked so hard getting the translation right and whose name should be on the front page" (ibid, p. 87). Georges Belmont, who translated Travels with my Aunt, remarked to Cloetta that Greene's books were "full of traps" (quoted ibid.), and particularly difficult to translate into French. Sibon also translated works by Stephen Spender, Vladimir Nabokov, and Kinglsey Amis, and was regularly recommended by Sylvia Beach, who introduced her to Katherine Anne Porter. Sibon became Porter's sole French translator and close friend. Porter praised her work, "I don't know a young American serious writer who doesn't hope to secure your interest as a translator" (5 July 1950), and wrote admiringly of her to others "it is amazing how clear and straight her work is, it reads back into English with not a shade of meaning lost" (Letter to Seymour Lawrence, 24 December 1962). Miller 51a. Isabel Bayley (ed.), Letters of Katherine Anne Porter, 1990; Yvonne Cloetta, In Search of a Beginning, 2004. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge blue. With dust jacket. Slight lean to spine, a near-fine copy, square and bright, in the lightly soiled jacket, spine panel a little toned, unclipped, a few short closed tears and two tiny chips to head of spine, one spot of foxing, else bright and fresh.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$4842.88 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 23 Volumes - Complete. FIRST EDITIONS and First printings of all volumes in this collected edition. --- Volume 1, Brighton Rock, is inscribed and signed by Graham Greene on the front free endpaper; - 'For Doctor A. D. Thomson from Graham Greene.' --- Publishers dark green cloth bindings with gilt ruling and lettering to the spines and grey endpapers. A fine set of books in very good dustwrappers, designed by Michael Harvey with some toning to the spines and a small amount of rubbing to extremities. Some volumes have a neat previous owner name on the front free endpaper and four of the wrappers nave been neatly price-clipped. A very good set with the added bonus of Greene's signature and inscription in Brighton Rock. Collected essays was issued in 1969, before the rest of the volumes, and is a little larger although the wrapper style is similar so it doesn't look out of place on the shelf with the set. ---- Greene wrote a new introduction to each of the volumes for this edition. -- More photos available on request.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
GREENE, GRAHAM. Travels with my Aunt [AND] The Honorary Consul. Bodley Head, London, 1969.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPIES FROM GREENE TO HIS GOOD FRIEND JOHN CARTER. Both books are inscribed: "For John with love from Graham". John Carter (1905-1975), the respected author, book-seller, and one of the most respected bibliophiles off the era, was a close personal friend of Greene's. The Honorary Consul, Greene's Argentinian thriller and one of his favorite books, is inscribed on the front free endpaper; Travels with my Aunt, one of Greene's most enduring works (the novel has been adapted for both the stage and the screen) is inscribed on the title page. Travels with my Aunt also has John Carter's bookplate on the front pastedown and a note (presumably by Carter) in pencil "received November 1969". Provenance: Christie's 27 October 1995, lot 60, The Library of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard; Sotheby's London, 24 March 1976, lot 326. Travels with my Aunt: London: The Bodley Head, 1969. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket with a little toning to spine and extremities. The Honorary Consul: London: The Bodley Head, 1973. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket with thin abrasion on front panel. Both books housed in custom green half morocco boxes and chemises. FINE ASSOCIATION COPIES WITH A STRONG PROVENANCE. Original cloth, original dust jacket
Seller: Manhattan Rare Book Company, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.