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GREENE (GRAHAM) Babbling April, FIRST EDITION, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1925
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GREENE (GRAHAM)
Babbling April, FIRST EDITION, publisher's grey boards lettered in blue, fine in dust-jacket (slight soiling, browning to edges and spine, extremities slightly worn) [Wobbe A1], 8vo, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1925
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FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. This collection of poems was written and published by the 21-year old Greene during his undergraduate years at Balliol College, where he claimed to have spent most of his time drunk and debt-ridden.



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