Greene, A Burnt-Out Case, 1961, inscribed

From the Library of Christian Heuer

GREENE, GRAHAM

A Burnt-Out Case. Heinemann, 1961

8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED ("For Anthony Hobson | from Graham Greene.") on title-page, half-title, original black cloth lettered in silver on spine, DUST-JACKET, dust-jacket very lightly bumped

A fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket.

First published in Swedish the preceding year, Greene's novel set in a leper's colony in remote Africa is "a fascinating study of the relationship of suffering, especially freely accepted suffering -- to wholeness" (review in The New York Times, February 1961).

Anthony Hobson, auctioneer and book collector, was a director at Sotheby’s. He was an obsessive collector of twentieth century fiction and fostered a friendship with Greene. Hobson successfully organised the sale of the author's manuscripts at Sotheby’s in 1964.

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