Author: GREENE GRAHAM
Title: In Search of a Character: Two African Journals.
Description: The Bodley Head, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Olive green boards, red quarter binding. Gilt titles to the spine. Very Good+, with a sound binding, clean & unmarked pages. Decorative endpapers. The DJ is unclipped and in Good+ condition. A small sticker scar to the front cover, spine browning. "In Search of A Character is a vivid portrait of Greene's Africa and provides a wonderful glimpse of the novelist responding to the raw material of his art. Two African notebooks record his travels in 1959, and his stay at the Yonda leper colony in the jungle which inspired the story for A Burnt-Out Case. Convoy to West Africa describes his voyage in a cargo boat during WW2, from Liverpool to Freetown, Sierra Leone, the setting for The Heart of the Matter." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 123 pages. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket .

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