Between the Covers

Hardcover. First edition. Oblong quarto. Boards a little bowed with rubbing at the edges, very good in papercovered boards in about very good dustwrapper. The second of Greene's four children's book collaborations with his sometime lover Dorothy Craigie. This copy is Inscribed by Greene to bibliographer and rare bookseller John Carter: "For John Carter with awe and affection from Graham Greene." Carter was the author of the standard dictionary of bibliographical terms *ABC for Book Collectors*. He was also a pioneer in the collecting and sale of mystery and detective fiction, and wrote the Introduction to the catalogue of Greene and Craigie's collection, *Victorian Detective Fiction.* A significant association copy of a reasonably uncommon title.

Item #443981