A Burnt-Out Case

London: William Heinemann, 1961 . First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8.5" by 5.5". None. The first edition of Graham Greene's 1961 novel, set in a Congolese leper colony. The first edition, first impression of this Graham Greene novel, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.A touching work set in a Leper colony on the upper reaches of a tributary on the Congo River in Africa, and inspired by Greene's own travels around a number of leper colonies in Africa in the 1950s.Commenting on his literary intentions in the work, Greene wrote that it was, 'an attempt to give dramatic expression to various types of belief, half-belief, and non-belief, in the kind of setting, removed from world-politics and house-hold-preoccupations, where such differences are felt acutely'.With a former owner's inscription to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Dust wrapper lightly age toned to back strip and head of rear wrap, with a small closed tear to the tail of the rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine