Graham Greene Country

by Paul Hogarth, Graham Greene

First Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean rust brown cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. All pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Foreword and Commentary by Graham Greene. Lovely color illustrations by Paul Hogarth. 175 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, with a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Graham Greene's novels are marked by a powerful sense of place. Here scenes from twenty-four works of fiction by Graham Greene are represented in the artwork of Paul Hogarth. Hogarth is the artist most closely associated with Greene, having illustrated the covers of his books in the Penguin editions, and he has travelled all over the world in the footsteps of the author, rediscovering the scenes he recorded fifty years or more earlier.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Literature

173 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1986

About the author

Paul Hogarth, OBE, RA (1917 - 2001) was an English artist and illustrator. He is best known for the cover drawings that he prepared in the 1980s for the Penguin edition of Graham Greene's books.

He was married to the Scottish painter Pat Douthwaite between 1963 and 1970.

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a pleasure to have this fascinating book to accompany my reading of everything written by Graham Greene in one year (the year of the pandemic). It is a book of full-color drawings by the incomparable illustrator, Paul, Hogarth, who, in 1985, determined to visit all the sites that were the bases of Graham Greene’s novels, in chronological order. No mention is made of this book in the Sherry biography of Greene, which seems odd.
The foreword to this book is by Greene, as well as scattered comments by him throughout the book, apparently in response to seeing the illustrations. In his foreword, Greene laments the loss of memory, ‘with a certain sadness,” and depicts himself, the writer, as “a kind of criminal without conscience. How many people have died at his hands and been forgotten by the killer?”
The volume was printed in London by Pavilion Books, in association with Michael Joseph Books, in 1986. Where I bought my copy, mint in a mint dust jacket, is not recorded in my notes, but I’m pretty sure I bought it somewhere in England on one of my trips. I haunted the English bookstores in those days.