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FIRST EDITION OF GREENE’S THE HONORARY CONSUL, INSCRIBED BY GRAHAM GREENE

GREENE, Graham. The Honorary Consul. London: The Bodley Head, (1973). Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket.

First edition, inscribed: “For John and Gillian, with love from Graham.”

“Few modern writers have his range and power, critical acclaim and popular success”; Greene had often been cited by his peers as “the greatest living novelist” (Magnusson, 623). 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. Miller 54a. Book fine, dust jacket extremely good with minor rubbing to foot of spine, reinforced with tape on verso.