GREENE, Graham
May We Borrow Your Husband and other Comedies of Sexual Life
The Bodley Head: 1967
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First edition, first printing. 8vo. Green cloth boards with gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy with clean boards.Internally crisp with no inscriptions. The near fine dustwrapper is bright with light wear & a short closed tear. Original price of 21s net on front flap. An attractive copy with rarely found unusually bright pink spine. Affairs, obsessions, grand passions and tiny ardours .this collection contains some of Greene's saddest observations on the hilarity of sex.
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