IT'S A BATTLEFIELD

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Inscribed association copy. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, without the dustwrapper. A good copy, the binding square but worn with small split at the top of the upper spine fold, the cloth somewhat mottled and with somefraying to the spine tips and corners. The contents, partially split to the lower inner hinge and lightly foxed to the prelims and some margins, are otherwise tightly bound and clean.

Inscribed by the author in the month of first publication "In gratitude for the pleasure / "Love on the Dole" gave me, / from Graham Greene / Feb. 1934 [underlined]". A fabulous association copy. The recipient of Greene's presentation is the Salford born, working-class author Walter Greenwood (1903-1974), best known for his 1933 novel (and 1934 stage adaptation of) 'Love on the Dole'. Genuine, unsolicited presentation copies of any of Greene's major novels are scarce, we can find just one such comparable presentation of 'It's a Battlefield', that copy inscribed for Ottoline Morrell, also in February 1934.