Collected Stories Vol 8 by Graham Greene ISBN 13: 9780370014715

Jonathan Cape, 1996. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: The Bodley Head / William Heinemann , 1972. 562 pp, 7 3/4" H. Heinemann SBN 434305618. "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… Read More

London: The Bodley Head and William Heinemann 1972. 8vo. First Edition Thus. xii, 562 pp. Original full green cloth hardback with gilt lettering to spine in jacket, not price clipped. Slight yellowing to spine and minimal wear to extremities. Boards clean and internally clean. Greene provided a new introduction for this edition, which includes 'May We Borrow Your Husband?', 'A Sense of Reality', and 'Twenty-One Stories' 0370014715 . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 1974.

The Bodley Head and William Heinemann, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/FINE. Signed bookplate inlaid to FFEP. First Edition Thus. 562 pp. Pristine copy with Henry Sothern bookseller's ticket to RFEP. We acquired this signed leaf along with the back stock of the publishers Sylvester and Orphanos, who had a few unused signed leaves in surplus of their actual production of the miniature signed limited edition Weed Among Flowers.