Greene, Graham

A Weed Among the Flowers

      NP: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. miniature book, one 300 copies (this being No. 77) SIGNED AND NUMBERED by both Greene and Spender, Fine in bright green silk Chinese-style binding, printed on Arches Mouldmade paper, with gold-foil-bordered printed title label; in an intricate wallet-style green silk case, an exterior printed spine label and a Chinese-style ivory-peg closure. A 33pp memoir of Greene's 1957 trip to China, illustrated by Vance Gerry, which, in his 11pp afterword Spender contrasts with his own more recent visit, after the downfall of the Gang of Four and the demise of the Cultural Revolution in 1983.