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GREENE, GRAHAM. Babbling April.
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Description: GREENE, GRAHAM. Babbling April. 8vo, publisher's grey boards stamped in blue, tiny gouge to top edge near spine; dust jacket, spine panel tanned with shallow chips to head and foot, some rubbing to folds, light soiling; offsetting to endpapers. – Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925
Footnote: first edition of greene's first book, intimate association copy inscribed to his first mistress: "For Dorothy [Glover] / with love & gratitude / for many things, but / especially for Aug-Sept / 1951 / from Graham." A collection of poems published when Greene was 21 and an undergraduate at Oxford. "A printing of 500 copies was planned but [...] only 300 or so were ever issued [...] Neither the book nor any of the poems have been reprinted." Wobbe A1.