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GREENE, Graham (1904-1991). The Basement Room and Other Stories. London: The Cresset Press Limited, [1935]. 8vo. [165], [1, blank] pp. Publisher’s full green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, publisher’s unclipped (“3/6 net”) dust jacket (cloth spine and board edges toned, some light edgewear to binding, some toning, light foxing to text, a few pencil notes to ffep and front blank; jacket chipped at upper edge, some toning, foxing, edgewear, some short tears and chips to spine tailcap, some light creasing). Very good. FIRST EDITION OF GREENE’S RAREST BOOK (ONE OF AN ESTIMATED 500 COPIES PRINTED), HIS FIRST COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, IN THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE SILVER FOIL JACKET. The title story is considered to be Greene’s most successful story, and was adapted into the film, The Fallen Idol (1948), directed by Carol Reed.