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GREENE TO HAROLD RUBINSTEIN 31. GREENE, Graham IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER Two African Journals The Bod- ley Head, 1961. First edition. Quarter red cloth with grey papered boards in a decorative dustwrapper. Author’s presentation copy, inscribed on the title page, “For Harold Rubinstein from Graham Greene”. A fine copy in a very near fine dustwrapper, slightly faded to the spine. [37781] £1,500 Harold Rubinstein was Graham Greene’s solicitor whose firm of Rubinstein, Nash & Co. special - ised in defending publishers and authors and acted for Greene between 1946 and 1985. Rubinstein notably came to Greene’s aid in acting as an intermediary and confidant when, in 1953, the Vatican wrote to the Archbishop of Westminster to recommend that Greene’s novel, The Pow- er And The Glory not be allowed to be reprinted or further translated until passages regarding Catholicism were changed. The two journals of the title are the authors Congo Journal and his Convoy to West Africa. PROVENANCE: From the library of Harold Rubenstein, Greene’s lawyer.
GREENE TO EDDY SACKVILLE-WEST 32. GREENE, Graham A SENSE OF REALITY Bodley Head, 1963.
First edition. Original green cloth lettered in gilt in abstract pictorial dustwrapper. Author’s presentation copy to friend and fellow novelist, Edward Sackville West, in- scribed on the front end paper, “For Eddie with love from Graham.” Sackville West’s stylish modernist bookplate to the front pastedown and his inscription “Cooleville 20.v.63” to the front endpaper. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. [40233] £2,250 An excellent association. Greene and Sackville-West had just missed each other at Oxford, but their literary careers overlapped from the mid-20s, and both converted to Catholicism. Sackville- West was one of very few whose literary opinion Greene sought and respected: he notes in Ways of Escape that when in doubt about The End of the Affair (1951) he had “sent the typescript to my friend Edward Sackville-West and asked his advice. Should I put the book in a drawer and forget it? He answered me frankly that he didn’t care for the novel but nonetheless I should publish - we ought to have the vitality of the Victorians who never hesitated to publish the bad as well as the good. So publish I did.”
HUDSON TO GALSWORTHY 34. HUDSON, W. H. GREEN MANSIONS Duckworth, 1904.
First edition, first issue binding without the publisher’s device on the rear board. Origi - nal green cloth titled in gilt. Author’s presentation copy, inscribed to John Galsworthy. A near fine copy with very minor fading to the spine and slight foxing to the endpa - pers. [17283] £4,500 A highly significant presentation copy of Hudson’s best known novel. Galsworthy was instru - mental in getting Green Mansions published in America thus furthering its popularity. In spite of some success in Britain, no American edition of Green Mansions had been forthcoming, but in 1916 at Galsworthy’s urging, Knopf published an edition with an introduction by Galsworthy in which he said of Hudson, “His work is a vision of natural beauty and of human life as it might be, quickened and sweetened by the sun and the wind and the rain, and by fellowship with all the other forms of life - the truest vision now being given to us, who are more in want of it than any generation has ever been. A very great writer; and... to my thinking... the most valuable our age possesses.”
GREENE TO THE SUTROS 33. GREENE, Graham THE GREAT JOWETT Bodley Head, 1981.
First edition, number 9 of 525 copies signed by the author. Additionally inscribed by Greene “For Gillian and John, Christmas 1981”. Original orange cloth, lettered in gilt, in original unprinted glassine. A near fine copy, faded to the spine. [37783] £1,200 John and Gillian Sutro shared a close friendship with Graham Green which begun with Mario Soldati’s introduction of them in Rome in 1947 and continued for the rest of their lives. He went as far as injecting the couple’s passion for collecting owls into The Human Factor (also naming a separately published extract from that novel ‘AWedding Among The Owls’), and in 1963 dedicat- ed A Sense Of Reality to the Sutros. The Great Jowett was written as a radio play for the BBC, broadcast in May 1939.
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