Author: Graham Greene; Dorothy Carter; John Carter [intro.]
Title: Victorian Detective Fiction: A Catalogue of the Collection Made by Dorothy Glover & Graham Greene
Description: London, The Bodley Head, 1966 . First edition. Cloth. A fine example of the signed limited edition bibliography of Greene and Glover's fantastic collection of works of Victorian detective fiction. The first edition, first impression of this limited edition work.Number 69 of 500 copies produced, flat signed by collectors and co-authors Graham Greene and Dorothy Glover, and also by the author of the introduction, John Carter.In two copies of the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A bibliography of the collection of works of Victorian detective fiction owned by Graham Greene and Dorothy Glover: 'Greene and Glover began the collection after the war when there were fewer competitors for many of the included items&apos.The collection features 472 entries, catalogued by Eric Osborne, a book specialist at Sotheby's auction house. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with two copies of the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. One copy of dust wrapper in fine condition, with the other copy near fine, with back strip lightly age toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Signed to final leaf. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.

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