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Auction archive: Lot number 374

Nineteen StoriesGraham Greene

Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$3,728 - US$6,214
Price realised:
£1,890
ca. US$2,349
Auction archive: Lot number 374

Nineteen StoriesGraham Greene

Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$3,728 - US$6,214
Price realised:
£1,890
ca. US$2,349
Beschreibung:

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). Nineteen Stories. London: William Heinemann, 1947. Presentation copy of the first edition, inscribed by the author: ‘To Frere affectionately from his grateful "author" – horrible term - Graham Greene’. Alexander Stuart Frere was an editor at Heinemann who was instrumental in the careers of a great number of important writers such as Noel Coward, Anthony Powell, John Steinbeck and Somerset Maugham. Wobbe A20. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, publisher’s device stamped in blind on lower board (endpapers a little browned); original printed dust-jacket priced 8s. 6d. (a few short tears along edges, spine lightly sunned, some edges a little darkened); housed in modern dark green quarter morocco box. Provenance: Alexander Stuart Frere (1892-1984; authorial presentation inscription on front free endpaper).

Auction archive: Lot number 374
Auction:
Datum:
15 Sep 2023 - 29 Sep 2023
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
Beschreibung:

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). Nineteen Stories. London: William Heinemann, 1947. Presentation copy of the first edition, inscribed by the author: ‘To Frere affectionately from his grateful "author" – horrible term - Graham Greene’. Alexander Stuart Frere was an editor at Heinemann who was instrumental in the careers of a great number of important writers such as Noel Coward, Anthony Powell, John Steinbeck and Somerset Maugham. Wobbe A20. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, publisher’s device stamped in blind on lower board (endpapers a little browned); original printed dust-jacket priced 8s. 6d. (a few short tears along edges, spine lightly sunned, some edges a little darkened); housed in modern dark green quarter morocco box. Provenance: Alexander Stuart Frere (1892-1984; authorial presentation inscription on front free endpaper).

Auction archive: Lot number 374
Auction:
Datum:
15 Sep 2023 - 29 Sep 2023
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
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