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[GREENE, Graham (1904-1991), association]. ALLINGHAM, William (1824-1889). William Allingham’s Diary. Introduction by Geoffrey Grigson. Fontwell: Centaur Press Ltd., [1967]. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait. 404 pp. Publisher’s full blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt, publisher’s unclipped (“£5.5.0. net”) dust jacket (faint offsetting and soiling to endleaves; jacket toned, rubbed, faint occasional soiling). Near fine. FIRST EDITION THUS, WITH A GIFT INSCRIPTION BY GREENE TO HIS PUBLISHER ON THE FFEP: “For Pat + Frank [?], after a lovely holiday in Barbados [?] in the hope that you’ll enjoy it as much as I did. with love, Graham.” Allingham was a well-regarded Irish poet; this diary recalls encounters with Tennyson and Thomas Carlyle.