JONKERS RARE BOOKS
GRAHAM GREENE - A PRIVATE COLLECTION The enclosed catalogue offers for sale an extensive collection of Graham Greene first editions, and includes rarities only dreamt of by Greene collectors in their most fanciful flights of imagination. Chief among these are the two books Greene privately printed for his lover Catherine Wal- ston on Anacapri in 1949 and 1951. Together, After Two Years and For Christmas are the most elusive of all of Greene’s works, produced in tiny print runs which were reduced further by Greene when he destroyed all but a handful of copies. While After Two Years was distributed to three of Greene’s close confidantes, the only known copies of For Christmas are the copy Greene kept for himself, the one he gave to Walston, and the copy offered here. Elsewhere the early Greene rarities are present in their first editions, with elusive dustwrap - pers adorning Journey Without Maps, Brighton Rock, The Power And The Glory , and others. No - table association copies also abound, with books from the libraries of Greene’s wife Vivien, fellow writer Margaret Lane, and John & Gillian Sutro.
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