The Basement Room and 9 others

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Los 378 | The Basement Room and 9 others
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£ 2 000 – 3 000
A group of 10 volumes, comprising:

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). The Basement Room and other stories. London: The Cresset Press, Limited, 1935.
First edition, second issue. Octavo. (Some minor spotting and marginal marks.) Original red cloth boards, second issue [first issued in green cloth], titles to spine in black; original dust-jacket (the margins of the leaves not sufficiently trimmed, as a result of which the dust-jacket is folded into the text on the front flap, jacket with several nicks and chips).

— The Lawless Roads. A Mexican Journey. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939.
First edition, first issue. Octavo. Photographic illustrations (occasional spots). Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, yellow cartographic endpapers; original dust-jacket (spine sunned, edges lightly tanned, nicks to spine ends and a few short closed tears).

— The Heart of the Matter. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1948.
First edition. Octavo. Original blue cloth, silver titles to spine, top edge stained red (light spotting to edges); original dust-jacket (lightly rubbed and nicked).

— A Weed Among the Flowers. With an afterword by Sir Stephen Spender. [Los Angeles:] Sylvester & Orphanos, 1990.
Signed by Greene and Stephen Spender, number 59 of 300 numbered copies. 16mo. Illustrations. Original green silk, green printed paper title label bordered in gilt to upper board, yellow binding thread to spine, with matching slipcase with gilt interior; housed in a green cloth box.

— The Human Factor. London: Bodley Head, 1978.
First edition. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in gilt, compliments slip from the publisher loosely inserted; original dust-jacket (lightly tanned).

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991) and Dorothy CRAIGIE (1901-1971, illustrator). The Little Horse Bus. London: Max Parrish, 1952.
First edition. Quarto. (A few faint spots or marks.) Original red boards, titles to spine and design to cover in gilt (spine lightly sunned); original illustrated dust-jacket (lightly rubbed dust-jacket, several small chips and closed tears with some tape repairs to verso).

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). The Potting Shed. A Play in Three Acts. London: Heinemann, 1958.
First edition. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt (endpapers faintly browned); original dust-jacket with orange and white titles to front and spine (lightly rubbed, a few short tears and creases).

— The Captain and the Enemy. London: Reinhardt Books in Association with Viking, 1988.
First edition. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in gilt; original dust-jacket.

— A Sort of Life. London: Bodley Head, 1971.
First edition, corrected state with ‘J. M. Barrie’ on p.177. Octavo. Original green boards, title to spine in gilt; original dust-jacket (lightly rubbed).

— A Sense of Reality. London: The Bodley Head, 1963.
First edition. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in gilt; original dust-jacket (faintly marked).
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