Graham. A Burnt Out-Case.

by GREENE

£225 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

GREENE, Graham. A Burnt Out-Case. London: Heinemann . 1961. 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in silver to spine, illustrated dust-jacket designed by Lacey Everett with the printed price of 16s to front flap; pp. [8], 256; slight wear to jacket edges, tape marks to pastedown, endpaper and jacket flaps, some light and infrequent marks throughout, slight shelfwear, toning and a couple of spots to edges of textblock, otherwise a bright example of the jacket; near fine. First English edition, first impression. Greene’s poignant novel follows a stranger who arrives at a Leper Colony. After being labelled as a ‘burnt-out case’, he begins to forge connections with those around him, and slowly begins to heal. The UK edition was preceded by the Swedish translation published by P.A. Norstedt Söners, Stockholm (1960). Wobbe A41a. SKU: 2124566

• Binding: Hardcover

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