Graham Greene: A Private Collection

JONKERS RARE BOOKS

75. The Spy’s Bedside Book GREENE, Graham and Hugh

76. Pursuits And Verdicts With a preface by Graham Greene [GREENE, Graham]; READ, Herbert

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First edition. 8vo. Blue boards with silver lettering to the spine, in a decorative dust - wrapper. A near fine copy with a hint of toning to the spine, in a very good dustwrapper indeed which is price clipped with slight fading to the top of the spine and triv- ial wear to the corners. [44616] £95 An anthology of spy writing.

Tragara Press, 1983. Sole edition. One of 135 copies pri - vately printed. Tan paper wrappers, title label to upper cover. Inscribed by Greene to the title page “For Margaret & Hudson Happy Christmas and love from Graham”. A fine copy. [44653] £1,250 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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