Volume One 1904-1939,
GREENE'S OWN COPY
The Life of Graham Greene Volume One 1904-1939,
Jonathan Cape, 1989.
First edition. Black boards with gilt lettering on the spine, in photographic dustwrapper. Author's presentation copy to his subject, inscribed on the title page, "To Graham Hot off the Press! Norman Sherry", and with Greene's ownership signature to the half title. Photographic illustrations throughout. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper.
Greene, impressed with Sherry's trio of biographies of Joseph Conrad, invited him to "Follow me to the end of my life" over lunch at the Savile club in 1974. The tirelessness with which Sherry approached his task caused Greene to later comment, "I will live to see your first volume, but not your second. And you will not live to see the third.". Greene was partly right: Greene died in 1991 prior to the second volume's publication in 1994.
Stock ID: 44149
£2,500.00
