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58 GREENE, Graham. Travels with my Aunt. London: The Bodley Head, 1969 Presentation copy to his French translator First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the title page “For Marcelle with love from Graham”. It is the first of Greene’s novels for which the recipient, Marcelle Sibon, was not the French translator, having translated all 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 Husban d, in which the strange, contemporary language of the title story – the sort used in homosexual milieux – was totally alien to her” (Clottea, p. 88). Yvonne Cloetta, Greene’s long-time lover, finished the translation. 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. Porter 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). 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 lightly soiled jacket, spine panel a little toned, not price-clipped, a few short closed tears and two tiny chips to head of spine, one spot of foxing, else bright and fresh. ¶ Miller 51a. £3,500 [150774]
59 GREGORY, Lady Augusta. Coole. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1931 The Chatelaine of Coole’s own copy First edition, first impression, inscribed “Own copy – A. Gregory” on a preliminary blank; one of 250 copies. Lady Gregory’s final book provides an affectionate account of her house, with chapters about the contents and histories of the principal rooms and the estate’s now-famous woods and lake. The work can be seen as the author’s personal farewell to the property, written as her health failed and she strove to commemorate both the house and park. Accompanying this copy are two reviews, carefully preserved by Lady Gregory: Richard Sunne’s “Books in General”, The New Statesman and Nation , 1 August 1931 and Harold Hannyngton Child’s (anonymous) “Lady Gregory at Home”, The Times Literary Supplement , 6 August 1931. Octavo. Original holland-backed blue paper boards, paper spine label, front cover lettered in black. “Lady Emer and tree” pressmark on title page designed by Elinor Monsel. Bookplate of Lady Gregory to front pastedown. Some light soiling and scratches to binding, minor loss to spine label, corners slightly bumped, some rust staining at rear, minor browning; a very good copy. £4,500 [158240]
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