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Greene, Graham. COLLECTION OF 15 FIRST EDITIONS, ALL PRESENTATION COPIES VERY AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO HIS LONGTIME COMPANION YVONNE CLOETTA (SOME ALSO TO HER HUSBAND JACQUES): Travels with My Aunt. 1969, the dedication copy, inscribed beneath the printed dedication (For H.H.K. who helped me more than I can tell "and for Yvonne | with love. | from Graham"); The Comedians. 1966 (For Yvonne, | with love & best wishes to all her | family...Christmas 1965 | Borrowed back for the film script, | Feb. '66..."), marginal notations by Greene for the film adaptation; A Burnt-Out Case. 1960 ("For Jacques & Yvonne Cloetta, | this book about a different | Africa to yours. | from Graham Greene | Jan. 16. 1961"); The Honorary Consul. 1973 ("For Yvonne with love. | This advance copy with misprint | etc. on the dust cover! | from Graham. | June. 1973 -- 3 weeks before publication!"), correction in ink to jacket blurb; An Impossible Woman. The Memories of Dottoressa Moor of Capri. Edited...by...Greene. 1975 ("For Yvonne who knew the | Dottoressa & turned the desert | of the Rosaio into a garden | with love to her & all | the family Cloetta..."), two photographs of the Dottoressa, together with typescript corrections, all annotated by Yvonne Cloetta, loosely inserted; Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party. 1980 ("For Yvonne & Jacques | with love -- the first copy -- | Graham. | Antibes Jan. 2. 1980"); Getting to Know the General. 1984 ("For Yvonne. | This first copy..."); The Captain and the Enemy. 1988, the dedication copy, the printed dedication "For Y with all the memories we share of nearly thirty years", inscribed by Greene beneath "and with love to | Yvonne this first copy | from Graham. | July 20 1988", notes by Yvonne Cloetta loosely inserted; another copy; The Last Word and other Stories. 1990 (For Yvonne, | these last scapings, | with 31 years' love, | from | Graham."); Reflections. 1990, ("For Yvonne | with more than 30 years of love, | from Graham. | Aug 27 1990"); these all published in London (Bodley Head etc), original bindings, all except the first three in dust-jacket; together with similarly inscribed copies of Carving a Statue (without jacket), Ways of Escape, A Sort of Life and The Tenth Man; 8vo (14)