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GREENE, Graham. The End of the Affair . London: William Heinemann, 1951. 8 o. Original printed wrappers (lightly worn). Provenance : GRAHAM GREENE (his annotations throughout). GREENE'S OWN ANNOTATED PROOF FOR THE FIRST EDITION. A REMARKABLE ASSOCIATION COPY, ALSO READ AND ANNOTATED BY EVELYN WAUGH. After Greene made his own corrections to the proof, he forwarded the proof to Waugh for his suggestions; it is docketed "E.W." on the front wrapper. The proof is emended throughout, mainly with minor changes and Greene's typical attention to verb tense. Occasional comments by Waugh include one on p.107: "'making love'=sexual intercourse." In a letter written to Greene on 21 May 1951, Waugh referenced the proof: "I greatly admire The End of the Affair and when I have read it a second time will say so at length for Fr Caraman. While proof corrections are still possible: is not 'cornice' p 186 a slip for some other word--buttress perhaps? And p.206. Could one speak of a 'man' as an 'abortion'? Don't please bother to answer. E." Both of these suggestions are recorded by Waugh in the proof. Waugh and Greene had a close relationship over the years, sharing their literary endeavors and their religious conflicts. After Waugh's death, Greene reflected on Waugh in his 1980 book Ways of Escape : "His death in 1966... was the death not only of a writer whom I admired ever since the twenties, but of a friend... There was always in Evelyn a conflict between the satirist and the romantic... perhaps romantism... helped to kill him." [ With: ] GREENE, Graham. The End of the Affair . London: William Heinemann, 1951. 8 o. Original grey cloth; printed dust jacket (spine panel lightly faded). Provenance : Dorothy Glover, illustrator and Greene's mistress (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GREENE TO DOROTHY GLOVER on the front free endpaper: "For Dorothy with love & gratitude from Graham." In 1938 Greene began an affair with Dorothy Glover, a theatre costume designer; they were closely involved with each other until the late 1940s. She started a career as a book illustrator under the name "Dorothy Craigie" and wrote children's books of her own, among them Nicky and Nigger and the Pirate (1960). Glover and Greene are known to mystery collectors for their fine catalogue of Victorian detective fiction, published by The Bodley Head in 1966. Greene began The End of the Affair on Capri in December of 1948; Greene later cited Great Expectations and The Good Soldier as major influences on the book (see lot 108 for the copy of Ford's The Good Soldier inscribed to Greene.) The most autobiographical of Greene's novels, The End of the Affair closely mirrors the long, intense affair Greene had with Catherine Walston. Walston was, like Greene, married and conducting simultaneous affairs. At the beginning of his affair with Walston, Greene was still seeing Dorothy Glover. Greene dedicated the book simply to "C."--Catherine Walston, whose affair with Greene effectively ended his marriage to his devoutly Catholic wife Vivien. Wobbe A27a. (2)