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GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). Babbling April. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925. 8vo. 32 pp. Publisher’s light gray boards, front board and spine stamped in blue, publisher’s unclipped (price not on flap) dust jacket (endleaves a bit offset; jacket toned and mildly worn at edges, a short tear at the upper margin of the front panel of the jacket). Fine. FIRST EDITION OF GREENE’S FIRST BOOK, ONE OF ONLY 302 COPIES BOUND-UP. THE H. BRADLEY MARTIN COPY, WITH HIS BOOKPLATE ON THE FP., AND IN HIS CUSTOM-MADE QUARTER BLACK MOROCCO SLIPCASE AND CHEMISE WITH HIS GILT SYMBOL ON THE FRONT BOARD OF THE SLIPCASE. Exceedingly rare, and with a superb provenance. Greene wrote this poetry collection whilst he was an undergraduate.