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GREENE, GRAHAM. 1904-1991. Babbling April. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925.

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GREENE, GRAHAM. 1904-1991. Babbling April. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925.

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GREENE, GRAHAM. 1904-1991.
Babbling April. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925.
8vo. Publisher's gray boards stamped in blue, printed dust jacket, custom clamshell box. Review copy, with publisher's slip loosely inserted at front. Some spotting to inserted slip and free front endpaper, bookplate to front paste-down; Dust jacket with back panel separated, old repair at spine crease of front panel, toning and light soiling.

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF GREENE'S FIRST BOOK, A COLLECTION OF POETRY, review copy. According to Blackwell, 500 copies were printed, but only 302 were issued (12 review copies), and 200 copies 'were withdrawn from stock and scrapped' (Miller A6a). Reportedly, Greene in his later years would burn copies he came across. Rare. Wobbe A1.
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