Greene (Graham) Babbling April, first edition, 1925.
Greene (Graham) Babbling April, first edition, ink ownership inscription of R. W. Ketton-Cremer to endpaper and with his gift inscription to Anthony Powell "A scarce and curious volume", bookplate of Anthony Powell to pastedown, light browning to endpapers, original boards, very minor bumping to spine ends and corners, else fine, dust-jacket, light discolouration to spine, otherwise a remarkably sharp, near-fine example, 8vo, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1925.
⁂ A superb copy of Greene's first book with a good literary provenance. R. W. Ketton-Cremer (1906-69, biography and historian) and Anthony Powell were contemporaries of Greene at Balliol College, Oxford.
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Greene (Graham) Babbling April, first edition, ink ownership inscription of R. W. Ketton-Cremer to endpaper and with his gift inscription to Anthony Powell "A scarce and curious volume", bookplate of Anthony Powell to pastedown, light browning to endpapers, original boards, very minor bumping to spine ends and corners, else fine, dust-jacket, light discolouration to spine, otherwise a remarkably sharp, near-fine example, 8vo, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1925.
⁂ A superb copy of Greene's first book with a good literary provenance. R. W. Ketton-Cremer (1906-69, biography and historian) and Anthony Powell were contemporaries of Greene at Balliol College, Oxford.