GREENE, Graham. The Name of Action, London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930, 8°, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed: "For Clive, affectionately from Graham," original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, windmill device blind-stamped on lower cover, dust-jacket with title in red on yellow background and black zig-zag side borders (backstrip of jacket very lightly browned). [Wobbe A3a; Miller 8a]

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GREENE, Graham. The Name of Action, London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930, 8°, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed: "For Clive, affectionately from Graham," original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, windmill device blind-stamped on lower cover, dust-jacket with title in red on yellow background and black zig-zag side borders (backstrip of jacket very lightly browned). [Wobbe A3a; Miller 8a]

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A VERY FINE PRESENTATION COPY OF GRAHAM GREENE'S SECOND PUBLISHED, SUPPRESSED, NOVEL IN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND BRIGHT DUST-JACKET. Wobbe estimates the number of copies printed at between 2,500 and 3,000. Greene himself reported that the novel sold barely more than 2,000 copies. He withdrew it from the body of his work and no other editions, other than the American, exist.

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