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GREENE (GRAHAM)
Four typed letters signed ("Graham Greene") to Alan Pryce-Jones (3) or David Pryce-Jones (1), the earliest (1955) mentioning he is "working hard at the script for the film" [presumably "Loser Takes All" which was released in 1956], that he had been in Canada but was en route to Monte Carlo, and hoping to "meet over a glass" soon, in 1963 thanking APJ for his book [about himself] and that "I will try to pick up the courage to read it...", and also mentioning that "I've been reading sufficiently stupid reviews of your novel to make me want to read it!", whilst in 1971 he thanks David P-J for sending a copy of his novel, "which I enjoyed a lot", together 4 pages, headed paper "C.6 Albany", 15 September 1955, and 26 September and 4 November 1963, and "130 Boulevard Malesherbes, Paris 17", 2 July 1971; Manuscript note signed ("Graham") to Alan Pryce-Jones ("A." and "APJ"), enigmatically writing "I nearly sued you for defamation of professional character. There was always a bullet in the revolver", one page, red ink, on back of a card for the Casanova Club, undated; The Revenge, 1963; The Virtue of Disloyalty, 1972, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, publisher's wrappers, Stellar Press, for the Author and Bodley Head, 8vo; and a small group of related ephemera (group)
"I FIND IT DISAGREEABLE READING BOOKS ABOUT MYSELF, EVEN IF THEY ARE FAVOURABLE" - Graham Greene thanks Alan Pryce-Jones for sending a copy of his book Graham Greene (Oliver & Boyd, 1963). The two men had been neighbours whilst living at Albany, Piccadilly and continued to cross paths during their literary careers.
Provenance: Alan Pryce-Jones (1908–2000); by descent to the present owner.
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GREENE (GRAHAM) Four typed letters signed ("Graham Greene") to Alan or David Pryce-Jones; and ephemera (group)
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- Lot #
- 103
- Currency
- GBP
- Location
- London, GB
- Lot Ends
- 3 Dec 2026, 14:42:00
- Auction Ends
- 3 Dec 2026, 16:47:00
- Auction Started
- 23 Nov 2026
- Lots in Auction
- 228