GREENE, GRAHAM. Stamboul Train. London: Heinemann [1932]. 8vo, original black cloth, edges foxed; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of Greene's first popular novel and commercial success (issued in America as Orient Express ), PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW, Mrs. Marion Dayrell-Browning, inscribed by the author on publication day on front free endpaper: "This very premature best wish for Christmas with love from Graham. December 8, 1932"; below this the recipient has written her name and address in pencil. Mrs. Dayrell-Browning, the mother of Greene's wife Vivien (the dedicatee of the book), died the following year. Wobbe A5a. The "entertainment" was the first of Greene's works to be made into a movie (the 1934 Orient Express ). Provenance : Unnamed consignor (sale, Sotheby's London, 15 December 1987, lot 74).
GREENE, GRAHAM. Stamboul Train. London: Heinemann [1932]. 8vo, original black cloth, edges foxed; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of Greene's first popular novel and commercial success (issued in America as Orient Express ), PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW, Mrs. Marion Dayrell-Browning, inscribed by the author on publication day on front free endpaper: "This very premature best wish for Christmas with love from Graham. December 8, 1932"; below this the recipient has written her name and address in pencil. Mrs. Dayrell-Browning, the mother of Greene's wife Vivien (the dedicatee of the book), died the following year. Wobbe A5a. The "entertainment" was the first of Greene's works to be made into a movie (the 1934 Orient Express ). Provenance : Unnamed consignor (sale, Sotheby's London, 15 December 1987, lot 74).
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