Babbling April

Lot 64
28.09.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 64 | Babbling April
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Babbling April

Graham Greene

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). Babbling April. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925.



Lady Ottoline Morell's copy of Greene's first book: presentation copy of the first edition. Babbling April was Greene's only volume of verse, preceding his first novel by four years. Impressed by Greene's novel The Man Within (1929), Morrell invited him and his wife, Vivienne, to tea at 10 Gower Street in the autumn of 1930 (Seymour, p.409). The Greenes signed the visitors book at 10 Gower Street on 23rd October 1930, the date of the inscription in this book. Wobbe A1.



Octavo. With newspaper profile of the author loosely inserted (faintest of cockling to textblock). Original grey paper boards, front cover and spine lettered in blue, uncut (one corner faintly bumped, one tiny spot on spine), original dust-jacket printed in black (darkened at backstrip and with a few tiny insignificant losses at extremities). Provenance: Lady Ottoline Morell (1873-1938; authorial presentation inscription: 'Lady Ottoline Morrell from Graham Greene October 23 1930', books from her library sold Christie's South Kensington, 1 November 2006, lot 104).

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