The Man Within. (SIGNED) by GRAHAM GREENE - 1929

Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1931. Book. Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, this copy inscribed by the author to fellow art-critic W.B.Honey. 28pp. Card wrappers, a little faded and frayed at overlapping edges. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

University of Washington Chapbooks, Seattle, 1930. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, this copy inscribed by the author to fellow distinguished art critic W.B.Honey. Small 8vo. 33pp. Card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. In very crisp state. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Harcourt Brace, New York, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first printing of the first American edition - this copy inscribed by the author: "for Alan Smith with all good wishes from John Lehmann 1976". Slim 8vo. 137pp. Blue cloth, silver lettered and ruled at the spine. Covers just a little spotted in places. A bright copy in slightly tanned and rubbed dust wrapper. A two-page foreword by the author precedes eighty-one poems. The recipient of Lehmann's inscription, Alan Smith, was a noted English bookseller and bibliographer, compiler of the Poetry London checklist..

Methuen & Co. Ltd. London.,1913. Spurrious First edition. Actually the fourth impression with a cancel title page, stating " First Published 1913" on verso, on the title page stub. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.3 inches). 8 page publishers advert dated Autumn 1913. A very good copy in publishers green cloth binding with spine decorated and lettered in gilt, including the correct spelling of the publishers name at the bottom. Signed by Joseph Conrad on the front free endpaper, Dated 1923. The top of the signed leaf and the half title page have a small indentation where a paper clip has been used.Aside from some light rubbing to the extremities this is a very good tight copy, the gilt on the spine still strong and bright. Loosely inserted is the front panel from the rare dustwrapper, showing a full colour illustration by J. Dewar Mills within a grey border. The whole panel dark blue with grey title and author. An interesting copy, signed by the author and with part of the wrapper, of the less common 1913 Cancel title… Read More

The Bodley Head, London, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing) of Theroux's debut novel (which was preceded by the US edition). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 208pp. Purple cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny smattering of foxing to the top edge and a single tiny blemish to the front free endpaper. Near fine in Yvonne Skargon-designed dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but fractionally marked and with a single lengthy closed tear to the front panel..

Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1931. Book. Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, this copy inscribed by the author to fellow art-critic W.B.Honey. 28pp. Card wrappers, a little faded and frayed at overlapping edges. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

University of Washington Chapbooks, Seattle, 1930. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, this copy inscribed by the author to fellow distinguished art critic W.B.Honey. Small 8vo. 33pp. Card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. In very crisp state. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Harcourt Brace, New York, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first printing of the first American edition - this copy inscribed by the author: "for Alan Smith with all good wishes from John Lehmann 1976". Slim 8vo. 137pp. Blue cloth, silver lettered and ruled at the spine. Covers just a little spotted in places. A bright copy in slightly tanned and rubbed dust wrapper. A two-page foreword by the author precedes eighty-one poems. The recipient of Lehmann's inscription, Alan Smith, was a noted English bookseller and bibliographer, compiler of the Poetry London checklist..

Methuen & Co. Ltd. London.,1913. Spurrious First edition. Actually the fourth impression with a cancel title page, stating " First Published 1913" on verso, on the title page stub. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.3 inches). 8 page publishers advert dated Autumn 1913. A very good copy in publishers green cloth binding with spine decorated and lettered in gilt, including the correct spelling of the publishers name at the bottom. Signed by Joseph Conrad on the front free endpaper, Dated 1923. The top of the signed leaf and the half title page have a small indentation where a paper clip has been used.Aside from some light rubbing to the extremities this is a very good tight copy, the gilt on the spine still strong and bright. Loosely inserted is the front panel from the rare dustwrapper, showing a full colour illustration by J. Dewar Mills within a grey border. The whole panel dark blue with grey title and author. An interesting copy, signed by the author and with part of the wrapper, of the less common 1913 Cancel title… Read More

The Bodley Head, London, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing) of Theroux's debut novel (which was preceded by the US edition). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 208pp. Purple cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny smattering of foxing to the top edge and a single tiny blemish to the front free endpaper. Near fine in Yvonne Skargon-designed dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but fractionally marked and with a single lengthy closed tear to the front panel..