Feb 20, 2020 - Sale 2530

Sale 2530 - Lot 248

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
GREENE, GRAHAM. A Burnt-Out Case. 8vo, publisher's silver-lettered black cloth, ring-stain on rear board; dust jacket, mild wear to folds and top edges. first edition, inscribed: "For Oliver & Monica / for beering in the garden / with love from Graham." Wobbe A41a. With ALS from Atalanta Roberts (1 sheet, recto only, on Gryphon Bookshop stationery, dated 15 April 1995) that identifies the dedicatees: "I, Atalanta Roberts, am the daughter of Sir Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre. Sir Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre was a friend and publisher of Graham Greene. Graham Greene was inspired and wrote a portion of A Burnt-Out Case while staying with my grandparents and visiting a leper colony with my Grandmother in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Atalanta Roberts." London: Heinemann, (1961)

Additional Details

with-Another copy. 8vo, publisher's cloth; dust jacket, short closed tears, corner nicks; ownership signature and long inscription. First edition. London, (1961).