The Lost Childhood and Other Essays

First edition. 8vo. Pp. viii, [4], 13–191, [1 (blank)]. Publisher's oatmeal cloth, lettered in gilt to spine; red top-stain. Typographical dustwrapper by Stein priced 12s. 6d. net to front flap.

Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, light fox-spotting to fore-edge; cropped dustjacket slightly abraded to crown and tail of spine, lightly dust-soiled to rear panel, else Fine.

Author's first collection of literary criticism, comprising essays on John Buchan, Samuel Butler, Charles Dickens, Walter de la Mare, Henry Fielding, Ford Madox Ford, H. Rider Haggard, Henry James, François Mauriac, Beatrix Potter, and Herbert Read amongst others. Includes seven autobiographical essays, such as "The Revolver in the Corner Cupboard," Greene's chilling account of his youthful fascination with Russian roulette.

[Wobbe A26a; Miller 28a]