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Greene, Graham
THE NAME OF ACTION. WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1930
Estimate
3,000 — 5,000
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162
Greene, Graham
THE NAME OF ACTION. WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1930
Estimate
3,000 — 5,000
GBP
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English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations, including The Garrett Herman Collection: The Age of Darwin

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Greene, Graham
THE NAME OF ACTION. WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 1930
8vo, FIRST EDITION, half-title, original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, publisher's device stamped in blind on lower board, FIRST ISSUE DUST-JACKET (priced "7/6"), some spotting and browning, dust-jacket a little worn at extremities and repaired with tape on verso at head of spine, some browning to spine and section of lower panel, collector's bookplate
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Provenance

The Book Society, bookplate

Literature

Wobbe A3

Catalogue Note

Greene became deeply disenchanted with his second novel, and as such the book appears in no other editions or reprints than the present example and the first American edition. According to Wobbe, the author remarked that "the title... suggested to him by Clemence Dane, is the only part of the novel he approves of".

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English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations, including The Garrett Herman Collection: The Age of Darwin

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