Book of the Day: Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter, autographed

Graham Greene, always a Nobel Prize bridegroom, was born on this day in 1904. A prolific and successful writer, he is remembered for the moral and political dilemmas he placed in in the way of his characters, who inhabited a bleak world critics called “Greeneland.” William Golding said Greene was “the ultimate chronicler of twentieth century man’s consciousness and anxiety."

Henry Bemis is celebrating by offering a copy of one of Greene’s four great, overtly Catholic-themed novels:

GRAHAM GREENE, THE HEART OF THE MATTER, AUTOGRAPHED

This Star Edition trade paperback was published in 1948 from the original Heinemann text for sale on the European continent only. Henry's copy comes from the estate of UNC-Charlotte Dean Glenn Burne, and was inscribed to Burne by Greene at a Paris publisher's autograph party in December 1949. Enclosed in the book are two tickets to that event. Good condition, and highly rare. HBB Price $75.

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