The Third Man and the Fallen Idol
Heinemann, 1950.
First edition. Original black cloth in photographic dustwrapper. Author's presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front endpaper, "For Anthony Hobson, from Graham Greene". A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, which just shows some trivial wear to the spine ends and corners.
Anthony Hobson, auctioneer and book collector knew Greene both in his capacity as a director of Sotheby's, possibly through Greene's friend John Carter (who also worked at Sotheby's). The correspondence between Greene and Hobson (now at Emory University) originates in about 1962 with the completion of Greene and Glover's collection of Victorian detective fiction. Hobson, an obsessive collector of twentieth century fiction anyway would have been keen to foster a friendship with such a significant author and Greene would be happy to have a man on the inside of the auction world. In 1964 Hobson successfully organised the sale of Greene's manuscripts for amounts which Greene described as "more than I had hoped for".
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