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INSCRIBED BY GRAHAM GREENE

GREENE, Graham. May We Borrow Your Husband? And Other Comedies of the Sexual Life. London: The Bodley Head, (1967). Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket.

First trade edition, inscribed: “For John and Gillian, with lots of love, Graham.”

“Greene has showed himself an admirable and original comic writer in the volume of short stories May We Borrow Your Husband” (Vinson, 575). John and Gillian Sutro, film and theatre producers and writers, were close friends of Greene for over thirty years, especially when they all lived in the south of France. Preceded by the signed limited edition of 500 copies issued the same year. Miller 49b. Book fine, dust jacket very nearly so with lightly toned spine.