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Auction archive: Lot number 38

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991) A series of 11 typed letters sign...

Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,636 - US$2,454
Price realised:
£1,875
ca. US$3,067
Auction archive: Lot number 38

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991) A series of 11 typed letters sign...

Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,636 - US$2,454
Price realised:
£1,875
ca. US$3,067
Beschreibung:

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). A series of 11 typed letters signed ('Graham Greene', 'Graham') to Professor Przemyslaw Mroczkowski, C6 Albany, London and La Résidence des Fleurs, Antibes, 25 January 1956 - 25 July 1988 (all but two before 1960), referring to their meeting in Cracow, his gifts of books (including an inscribed copy of Murder in the Cathedral ), the preparations for a stage production of The Power and the Glory , and a trip to the Belgian Congo, 'I am about half way through a novel set in a leproserie of the Belgian Congo [ A Burnt Out Case ]', together 11 pages, 4to , with a secretarial letter, and an inscribed copy ('For Professor Mroczkowksi with happy memories of our first meeting in Cracow, Nov. 18, 1955') of The Power and the Glory (Heinemann Pocket Edition, 1945). Provenance : by descent from the recipient. (12)
GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). A series of 11 typed letters signed ('Graham Greene', 'Graham') to Professor Przemyslaw Mroczkowski, C6 Albany, London and La Résidence des Fleurs, Antibes, 25 January 1956 - 25 July 1988 (all but two before 1960), referring to their meeting in Cracow, his gifts of books (including an inscribed copy of Murder in the Cathedral ), the preparations for a stage production of The Power and the Glory , and a trip to the Belgian Congo, 'I am about half way through a novel set in a leproserie of the Belgian Congo [ A Burnt Out Case ]', together 11 pages, 4to , with a secretarial letter, and an inscribed copy ('For Professor Mroczkowksi with happy memories of our first meeting in Cracow, Nov. 18, 1955') of The Power and the Glory (Heinemann Pocket Edition, 1945). Provenance : by descent from the recipient. (12)

Auction archive: Lot number 38
Auction:
Datum:
1 Jun 2009
Auction house:
Christie's
1 June 2009, London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). A series of 11 typed letters signed ('Graham Greene', 'Graham') to Professor Przemyslaw Mroczkowski, C6 Albany, London and La Résidence des Fleurs, Antibes, 25 January 1956 - 25 July 1988 (all but two before 1960), referring to their meeting in Cracow, his gifts of books (including an inscribed copy of Murder in the Cathedral ), the preparations for a stage production of The Power and the Glory , and a trip to the Belgian Congo, 'I am about half way through a novel set in a leproserie of the Belgian Congo [ A Burnt Out Case ]', together 11 pages, 4to , with a secretarial letter, and an inscribed copy ('For Professor Mroczkowksi with happy memories of our first meeting in Cracow, Nov. 18, 1955') of The Power and the Glory (Heinemann Pocket Edition, 1945). Provenance : by descent from the recipient. (12)
GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). A series of 11 typed letters signed ('Graham Greene', 'Graham') to Professor Przemyslaw Mroczkowski, C6 Albany, London and La Résidence des Fleurs, Antibes, 25 January 1956 - 25 July 1988 (all but two before 1960), referring to their meeting in Cracow, his gifts of books (including an inscribed copy of Murder in the Cathedral ), the preparations for a stage production of The Power and the Glory , and a trip to the Belgian Congo, 'I am about half way through a novel set in a leproserie of the Belgian Congo [ A Burnt Out Case ]', together 11 pages, 4to , with a secretarial letter, and an inscribed copy ('For Professor Mroczkowksi with happy memories of our first meeting in Cracow, Nov. 18, 1955') of The Power and the Glory (Heinemann Pocket Edition, 1945). Provenance : by descent from the recipient. (12)

Auction archive: Lot number 38
Auction:
Datum:
1 Jun 2009
Auction house:
Christie's
1 June 2009, London, South Kensington
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