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BOOKS AND LETTERS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANTHONY POWELL
Lot 304

GREENE (GRAHAM)
Babbling April, FIRST EDITION, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1925

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GREENE (GRAHAM)

Babbling April, FIRST EDITION, publisher's boards, dust-jacket (spine slightly darkened) [Wobbe A1], 8vo, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1925

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FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, IN THE DUST-JACKET.

Provenance: R.W. Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969), ownership inscription (1925) on front free endpaper; gifted by Kretton-Cremer to Anthony Powell, inscribed "A.D.P. from R.W.K.C. MCMLIII. A scarce and curious volume".

The biographer and county historian Ketton-Cremer was a contemporary of both Graham Greene and Anthony Powell at Balliol College, Oxford in the 1920s. "Greene and I met only once there... that was in Sligger's rooms... I addressed a remark to him, at which he replied rather sharply. No doubt it was foolish or frivolous. We did not meet again until 1933 or 1934, when we saw a certain amount of each other in the years just before the war" (Powell, Miscellaneous Verdicts, 1990, p.339).

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