And Other Stories
The Basement Room And Other Stories
Cresset Press, 1935.
First edition. Second issue binding of red cloth lettered black, in the silver, green and blue dustwrapper. A near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper indeed, which has a shallow chip to the head of the spine and a closed tear to the lower panel, but is unusually free from wear.
Greene's first collection of short stories, with The Basement Room, I Spy, A Chance For Mr Lever and Proof Positive seeing their first publication in any form. In 1948 the titular story would be adapted into the Oscar nominated Carol Reed film The Fallen Idol.
The dustwrapper is made of a paper-backed foil over which is printed the design and lettering. The effect is quite striking, but the thinness of the paper means that the dustwrapper is particularly fragile and thus rarely encountered. Where it is, the lettering has usually been partially worn away. Copies which are as well preserved as this one are rare.
Wise & Hill A9, Wobbe A10, Miller 15.
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