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London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1950).. Third edition.. 289 pp. Fine in very good plus, deeply price-clipped dust jacket with sunned spine. Greene contributes a brief introductory note, specific to this edition.

London: Longmans, Green. VG+, NO dj. 1939. 1st. hardcover. 8vo . 306pp . Stated 1st published 1939. later state binding, with black lettering on spine. Bit of foxing top edge. Clean, solid copy. .

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, second state cloth. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.306; [2]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine (first state has gilt titles), map endpapers. With ten black and white photographic illustrations to eight plates. Small repaired tear to edge of page 227, discreet ownership to flyleaf, and ownership stamp and inscription to half title. Edges a little toned/dusty. Cloth lightly handled and marked, more so to spine. A bright, attractive copy. Very good. Greene's second travel book, published as Another Mexico in the US.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1939. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A first edition copy of Graham Greene's account of his travels through Mexico, which inspired his novel The Power and the Glory. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Ink inscription to the half title page, dated 1939. Boots resale sticker to front board is removable with care. Graham Greene (1904-1991) was one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. This is his account of his 1938 trip to Mexico, which also inspired his novel The Power and the Glory. His primary aim for the trip was to understand the experiences of the Mexican people, who were uprising against the government's anti-clerical purges and forced anti-Catholic secularization. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally generally smart, with darkening to the spine and extremities, and small losses to the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Label of Boots Booklovers Library to the front… Read More

Longmans, Green & Co 1939. First issue first edition, ex library, d/w flaps trimmed, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus yellow eps,upper pae edges stained yellow, frontispiece, 306pp, illus, VG- (moderate staining to boards, esp to rear board & sellotape-residue staining to both, bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, owner's name stamp to half-title page, some light foxing & tanning to page edges, stain spot to fep verso & half-title, sellotape-residue staining to eps) in d/w, VG- (flaps trimmed and sellotaped at front & rear pastedowns, creasing & nicks to upper spine extrem, light fading to edges)

London: Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1939. The rare first issue in a strikingly bright jacket First edition, first impression, rare first issue, of Greene's account of the travels that inspired The Power and the Glory (1940). Longmans financed his five month trip to Mexico in 1938, where he compiled notes on the continued persecution of the Catholic Church following the Cristero War (1926-1929). As a Catholic conservative, Greene's report is generally hostile, and he describes his "growing depression, almost pathological hatred... for Mexico". The persecution of the Church was particularly severe in Tabasco, and many of Greene's descriptions of the province appear in The Power and the Glory: from the sound of a revolver to the vultures in the sky. The principal characters of the novel also find antecedents in The Lawless Roads, including his protagonist, the whisky priest, but Douglas Veitch notes that "nowhere in The Power and the Glory is there any indication of the testiness and revulsion recorded in… Read More