GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). Nineteen Stories. London: William Heinemann, 1947.

Presentation copy of the first edition, inscribed by the author: ‘To Frere affectionately from his grateful "author" – horrible term - Graham Greene’. Alexander Stuart Frere was an editor at Heinemann who was instrumental in the careers of a great number of important writers such as Noel Coward, Anthony Powell, John Steinbeck and Somerset Maugham. Wobbe A20.

Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, publisher’s device stamped in blind on lower board (endpapers a little browned); original printed dust-jacket priced 8s. 6d. (a few short tears along edges, spine lightly sunned, some edges a little darkened); housed in modern dark green quarter morocco box. Provenance: Alexander Stuart Frere (1892-1984; authorial presentation inscription on front free endpaper).