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206. GREENE, Graham THE HEART OF THE MATTER Heine- mann, 1948. First edition. Original blue cloth with silver titles, in red dust- wrapper lettered in white, com- plete with original wraparound band. A fine copy in a fine dust - wrapper, which is crisp and bright with just trivial wear to the corners and base of the spine but exceptionally has an unfaded spine. A superb copy. [46485] £1,500 One of the harder of Greene’s novels to find in fine condition due to its fragile post war paper stock and fu-
same lettering and device on the spine. It is probably one of a small number produced for presentation or distri- bution among key Cape staff. “For any other writer it would have been a great masterpiece. As it is, it is the best fictional report on the Spanish Civil War that we possess.” - Anthony Burgess Burgess p. 29 208. LARKIN, Philip THE LESS DECEIVED The Marvell Press, 1955. First edition, first issue with a flat spine and the misprint ‘floor’ for ‘sea’ on p. 38. Original green diaper cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, in light grey-red printed dustwrapper with black lettering. A fine copy with a faint crease to the front board, in a near fine dustwrapper with a little fading to the spine and slight wear to the corners. [45895] £2,250 The first of Larkin’s major poetry collections which did much to estab- lish his reputation as one of the post war period’s most influential poets. On the basis of some 120 subscriptions gathered by the Marvell Press in
gitive red colouring.
207. HEMINGWAY, Ernest FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS Cape, 1941.
the summer of 1955, orders were placed for 700 cop- ies to be printed of which 300 copies were bound, as here, with a flat spine for distribution in late No- vember. A mention in The Times in late December produced a flurry of orders in early 1956 necessitating the remaining 400 copies to be bound up, similarly but with a rounded spine. These were distributed in
First UK edition. Publisher’s pres- entation binding of half blue mo- rocco with gilt lettering and ruled decoration on the spine. Gilt rules to cover. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpa- pers. Bain & Co. binder’s signature to reverse of front endpaper. A near fine copy with a little tanning to the edges of the boards and a touch of fading to spine. [46506] £1,250 The binding of the copy is unrecorded by either of Hemingway’s bibliographers, but is almost certainly publisher commis- sioned as it is stamped A.W.Bain & Co., who was the same trade binder that Cape used for the binding up of the standard copies of the first UK edition and uses the
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