INSCRIBED TO GRAHAM GREENE
The Holy Places
Queen Anne Press, 1952.
First edition. Number 54 of a limited edition of 950 printed on mould made paper. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper to friend and fellow novelist, Graham Greene, "Graham from Evelyn Christmas Card 1952". Full red buckram with gilt vignette on the upper cover and titles on the spine, in grey pictorial dustwrapper illustrated by Reynolds Stone. Top edge red, others uncut. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Reynolds Stone. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, which shows a little wear to the spine ends and corners.
A monumental association copy between two of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Waugh and Greene were contemporaries at Oxford though not friends at the time. They began a long friendship and series of correspondence in the mid thirties. Both were famous converts to Catholicism, though differed greatly in their interpretation of their religion. Politically they also differed: Greene the staunch socialist whilst Waugh maintained an aristocratic right wing leaning. Despite numerous arguments they maintained their friendship born from a mutual respect of each others work, when both authors found friends hard to come by.
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