Lot 108
Greene (Graham) The Name of Action, first edition, 1930.
Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000
Description
Greene (Graham) The Name of Action, first edition, light foxing on first and last few pages, original cloth, first state dust-jacket priced "7/6 Net" on spine, edges brittle with some chipping, 1" tear along lower panel joint tail, spine toned with few light surface scuffs, otherwise a remarkably fresh and bright copy, [Wobbe A3a], 8vo, 1930.
⁂ Rare with the first state unrestored dust-jacket.
Greene later disowned this work, as well as Rumour at Nightfall, saying that they were "of a badness beyond the power of criticism properly to evoke...." - Wobbe.
Description
Greene (Graham) The Name of Action, first edition, light foxing on first and last few pages, original cloth, first state dust-jacket priced "7/6 Net" on spine, edges brittle with some chipping, 1" tear along lower panel joint tail, spine toned with few light surface scuffs, otherwise a remarkably fresh and bright copy, [Wobbe A3a], 8vo, 1930.
⁂ Rare with the first state unrestored dust-jacket.
Greene later disowned this work, as well as Rumour at Nightfall, saying that they were "of a badness beyond the power of criticism properly to evoke...." - Wobbe.
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