Potting Play, Signed (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Coveer illustration by David Stone Martin (illustrator). 1st Edition. States "First published in 1957 by The Viking Press." Original $3.00 price still showing to top of jacket front flap. Signed by the author (full name, only) in green ink to the half-title page. There is intermittent underlining of the text in red ink. Greatly influenced by the line art of Ben Shahn, cover artist David Stone Martin (1913-1992) was best known for his illustrations on more than 400 jazz record albums, many of which were simply line art combined with a single color. 123 pp. Reduced from $700. Signed by Author(s).

First U.S. edition. With a presentation inscription from the author to Anthony Hobson. A fine copy in d/w, which has a little rubbing to the top edge but is in fact, about fine. Anthony Hobson was Graham Green's contact at Sotheby's and they corresponded over the years beginning in 1962 and in 1964 Hobson organized the sale of Green's manuscripts. Their correspondence is now at Emory University Library.

, 76 pages, signed "For David love Graham" on the front free endpaper First Edition , spine and front corner faded, a few marks to boards, a section on p74 crossed out, pages clean, good condition , blue cloth, gilt title to spine , 19 cm x 13 cm Hardback SIGNED by the author ISBN:

1st Edition. Hb In Dw viii +76pp Presentation Copy with 1pp trimmed down TLs from Graham Green to notable gay curate Richard Blake Brown bearing Blake BrownĠs signature to front pastedown. Greene writes ÒMy Dear Richard Many thanks for your letter which has broken a long silence. I am so glad you liked the play. What have you been doing with yourself? Any more books on the way? I heard rumours of you at the wedding and how you eclipsed every other male there. Affectionately GrahamÓ Newspaper review of play tipped in Dw Lightly Chipped O/w A Vg/Vg important association copy.

First UK edition, first impression, inscribed by the playwright on the title page, "For Clive, after the ordeal. From Graham Greene". Clive Hirschhorn (b. 1940), was the film and theatre critic for the Sunday Express for over three decades. His ownership inscription, dated 1958, appears on the front pastedown. The Potting Shed opened at the Bijou Theatre on Broadway on 29 January 1957. It was first published in the US in 1957 by the Viking Press. Miller 36d. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's device to rear cover in blind. With dust jacket. Ticket of Vanguard Booksellers, Johannesburg, on front pastedown. Negligible bump to spine foot, dust-toning to top edge; jacket spine sunned, edges slightly rubbed and nicked, closed tear to head of front panel, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.

First UK edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 76.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ''For Fr. Simpson affectionately - Graham Greene''. The recipient, James B. Simpson, was an Episcopal priest and former journalist.Front free endpaper slightly tanned. Very good in very good indeed dustwrapper slightly rubbed at the edges.