Graham Greene — A Burnt-out Case

London, Heinemann, 1961 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Graham Greene's 1961 novel based in a Congolese leper colony, in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this novel from Graham Greene, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.A touching novel set in a Leper colony, located on the upper reaches of a tributary on the Congo River in Africa, and inspired by Greene's own travels around a number of leper colonies in Africa in the 1950s.Commenting on his literary intentions in the work, Greene wrote that it was, 'an attempt to give dramatic expression to various types of belief, half-belief, and non-belief, in the kind of setting, removed from world-politics and house-hold-preoccupations, where such differences are felt acutely&apos.With the former owner's bookplate of Bruce Wilfred Goodman tipped in to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip tail, with boards exceptionally clean. Light discolouration to back strip, with edge wear to back strip head and tail, and rubbing to dust wrapper back strip joints. Former owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.