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Collected Stories (Including May We Borrow Your Husband?, a Sense of Reality, Twenty-One Stories)
by Greene, Graham
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine, 1st thus (in the Collected Edition of Greene's works), with unclipped d/j (v.g., a little bumping on top edge); green clot
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Bodley Head / William Heinemann, 1972. 1st thus. hardback. Fine, 1st thus (in the Collected Edition of Greene's works), with unclipped d/j (v.g., a little bumping on top edge); green cloth boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). From Greene's introduction: ""The following three stories in this collection are published in book form for the the first time: The Blessing, Church Militant, Dear Dr Falkenheim."" ""Looking over these stories now which stretch in time from 1929 to the eve of the 1970's I am struck by an odd fact - humour enters very late and very unexpectedly. The only three stories I wrote during the war were humorous ones - there again the short story was an escape, an escape from the blitz and the nightly deaths. So perhaps the stories which make up the collection 'May We Borrow Your Husband?', all written during what should be the last decade of my life, are an escape in humour from the thought of death - this time of certain death. Writing is a form of therapy; sometime I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation.""
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC131860
- Title
- Collected Stories (Including May We Borrow Your Husband?, a Sense of Reality, Twenty-One Stories)
- Author
- Greene, Graham
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine, 1st thus (in the Collected Edition of Greene's works), with unclipped d/j (v.g., a little bumping on top edge); green clot
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bodley Head / William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1972
- Pages
- 562
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st thus, short stories, Greene, fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
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Inklings & Yarnspinners
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Maidenhead, Berkshire
About Inklings & Yarnspinners
INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)
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- 12mo
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- Cloth
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