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GREENE, GRAHAM. Brighton Rock. 8vo, original printed wrappers, spine slightly faded with a small chip at upper extremity, faint finger soiling; preserved in custom drop-back case. London: Heinemann, (1938)
uncorrected proof copy with a short signed presentation inscription by greene on the title-page. According to Wobbe, "...the novel was written under circumstances not unlike those surrounding his earlier books. He was still not out of debt to the publisher and his novels were not yet bringing in enough money to live on." It is not unreasonable then to speculate that the number of proofs Heinemann distributed were relatively low. A scarce advance copy of one of the high points of Greene's oeuvre. Wobbe, p. 42.
