Graham Greene & Dorothy Glover: 'Victorian Detective Fiction...

Hammer

£230

Graham Greene & Dorothy Glover: 'Victorian Detective Fiction: A Catalogue of the Collection Made by Dorothy Glover & Graham Greene, bibliographically arranged by Eric Osborne and introduced by John Carter, with a preface by Graham Greene', London, The Bodley Head, 1966, 1st edition, limited edition (150/500), numbered & signed by Graham Greene, Dorothy Glover and John Carter, with further Typed Letter Signed from Graham Greene to Ronald Arthur Brimmell (1917-1993), actor, antiquarian bookseller, artist and author/publisher "Dear Mr Brimmell, I enclose a cheque for the Jules Verne...About the question over The Hansom Cab. I agree with you that the figures do seem suspect as far as the further copies are concerned...Nobody would have thought that it would become a collector's item. I can't remember how Eric Sinclair Bell's bibliography reached me. It is now fourteen years ago....I regarded Bell as an authority but on whose recommendation I cant remember now. Perhaps the files will show. Graham Greene", dated 17th June 1980 on La Résidence des Fleurs, Antibes headed paper