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GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). A Visit to Morin. London: The Windmill Press Ltd for William Heinemann Ltd, 1959.
8° (215 x 139mm). Title printed in green and black. (Scattered light spotting.) Original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, dustwrapper lettered in green and black, green fabric marker (dustwrapper with slight marginal fading and creasing causing minor tearing on upper edge). Provenance: 'For Sourisebb, , from a dubious [drawing of a [?]wishbone] of a abcdefgh , and a shabby good ['good' struck through] [drawing of a face] , of [drawing of a [?]communion wafer] i o hell ['hell' struck through] , in memory of many voyages , in the Souris , Graham.' (inscription on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. WITH A REBUS INSCRIPTION FROM GREENE. A Visit to Morin describes an encounter on Christmas Eve between Dunlop, an English wine merchant in France, and Pierre Morin, an elderly French novelist. Morin's novels 'offended the orthodox Catholics in his own country and pleased the Liberal Catholics abroad' (p.[7]), and were, Dunlop tells him, 'the first books [...] to interest me in your faith' (p.16). Morin invites Dunlop back to his house, and the writer talks of his awkwardly-assumed role as a Catholic figure, the obligations and constrictions that he feels it places on his own changing theology, and the consequent dilemmas, concluding: 'I don't believe in God and His Son and His angels and His saints, but I know the reason why I don't believe and the reason is--the Church is true and what she taught me is true. For twenty years I have been without the sacraments and I can see the effect. The wafer must be more than wafer' (p.25). A Visit to Morin was first published in the London Magazine, and then issued in this edition of 250 copies, which were distributed to Greene's friends as gifts at Christmas 1960. Miller Greene 39; Wobbe Greene A40.
8° (215 x 139mm). Title printed in green and black. (Scattered light spotting.) Original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, dustwrapper lettered in green and black, green fabric marker (dustwrapper with slight marginal fading and creasing causing minor tearing on upper edge). Provenance: 'For Sourisebb, , from a dubious [drawing of a [?]wishbone] of a abcdefgh , and a shabby good ['good' struck through] [drawing of a face] , of [drawing of a [?]communion wafer] i o hell ['hell' struck through] , in memory of many voyages , in the Souris , Graham.' (inscription on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. WITH A REBUS INSCRIPTION FROM GREENE. A Visit to Morin describes an encounter on Christmas Eve between Dunlop, an English wine merchant in France, and Pierre Morin, an elderly French novelist. Morin's novels 'offended the orthodox Catholics in his own country and pleased the Liberal Catholics abroad' (p.[7]), and were, Dunlop tells him, 'the first books [...] to interest me in your faith' (p.16). Morin invites Dunlop back to his house, and the writer talks of his awkwardly-assumed role as a Catholic figure, the obligations and constrictions that he feels it places on his own changing theology, and the consequent dilemmas, concluding: 'I don't believe in God and His Son and His angels and His saints, but I know the reason why I don't believe and the reason is--the Church is true and what she taught me is true. For twenty years I have been without the sacraments and I can see the effect. The wafer must be more than wafer' (p.25). A Visit to Morin was first published in the London Magazine, and then issued in this edition of 250 copies, which were distributed to Greene's friends as gifts at Christmas 1960. Miller Greene 39; Wobbe Greene A40.
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