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GREENE, GRAHAM. The Lost Childhood and Other Essays. 8vo, publisher's beige cloth, spine titles a little dulled; dust jacket, some toning to top of flaps and rear panel borders, spine panel lightly sunned with minor rubbing to head and foot. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951
first edition, presentation copy, inscribed: "For [A.S.] Frere & Pat / with love to my friends / & gratitude to my publisher / Graham / March 1951." Frere, a director at Heinemann, was perhaps Greene's closest confidante on all things publishing, and as a member of The Book Society, was instrumental in seeing Stamboul Train through to publication. Wobbe A26a.
