GREENE, Graham. A Burnt Out-Case. London: Heinemann. 1961.
8vo. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in silver to spine, illustrated dust-jacket designed by Lacey Everett with the printed price of 16s to front flap; pp. [8], 256; slight wear to jacket edges, tape marks to pastedown, endpaper and jacket flaps, some light and infrequent marks throughout, slight shelfwear, toning and a couple of spots to edges of textblock, otherwise a bright example of the jacket; near fine.
First English edition, first impression.
Greene’s poignant novel follows a stranger who arrives at a Leper Colony. After being labelled as a ‘burnt-out case’, he begins to forge connections with those around him, and slowly begins to heal.
The UK edition was preceded by the Swedish translation published by P.A. Norstedt & Söners, Stockholm (1960).
Wobbe A41a.
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