JONKERS RARE BOOKS
51. A Sort Of Life Bodley Head, 1971. First edition. Green boards with gilt let- tering on the spine, in a decorative dustwrapper. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. [44659] £75 This is the corrected state of the first edition, with ‘J.M. Barrie’ on line 4 of page 177.
52. The Virtue Of Disloyalty Bodley Head, 1972. First edition, one of 300 copies, private - ly printed for Greene to send to friends as a Christmas card. A single sewn quire with outer wrapper printed in green and black. Page edges uncut. Author’s presentation copy, inscribed “For Hudson and Margaret with love & best wishes for Christmas from Graham. King Edward VII Hospital for Officers!” A fine copy with just a touch of wear to the head of the spine. [44593] £750 The couple to whom the book is inscribed were likely the oph- thalmologist James Hudson and his wife Margaret. Hudson worked at the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers as a con- sultant, the hospital in which Greene’s brother Hugh later died.
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