Travels With My Aunt -
Graham Greene
1969 - The Bodley Head, London Sydney Toronto - First Edition
‘Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written just for the fun of it."
‘Travels with My Aunt’ is the story of Henry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager, who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her way to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society; mixes with hippies, war criminals, and CIA men; smokes pot; and breaks all currency regulations.’ Reference: Penguin Classics. Wobbe, Graham Greene: A Bibliography, A53a.
Octavo (book size 20.5x13.8cm), pp. 319 [1]. In publisher’s green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge with faint purple tint. Dust jacket priced ‘30s [£1.5] NET IN U.K. ONLY’ to lower corner of front flap. Condition: Fine, in near fine dust jacket toning to spine. Ref: 112296 Price: HK$ 1,900
‘Travels with My Aunt’ is the story of Henry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager, who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her way to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society; mixes with hippies, war criminals, and CIA men; smokes pot; and breaks all currency regulations.’ Reference: Penguin Classics. Wobbe, Graham Greene: A Bibliography, A53a.
Octavo (book size 20.5x13.8cm), pp. 319 [1]. In publisher’s green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge with faint purple tint. Dust jacket priced ‘30s [£1.5] NET IN U.K. ONLY’ to lower corner of front flap. Condition: Fine, in near fine dust jacket toning to spine. Ref: 112296 Price: HK$ 1,900