INSCRIBED BY GREENE
The Virtue of Disloyalty
Bodley Head, 1972.
First edition, one of 300 copies, privately printed for Greene to send to friends as a Christmas card. A single sewn quire with outer wrapper printed in green and black. Page edges uncut. Author's presentation copy, inscribed "For Hudson and Margaret with love & best wishes for Christmas from Graham. King Edward VII Hospital for Officers!" A fine copy with just a touch of wear to the head of the spine.
The couple to whom the book is inscribed were likely the ophthalmologist James Hudson and his wife Margaret. Hudson worked at the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers as a consultant, the hospital in which Greene's brother Hugh later died.
Stock ID: 44593
