FIRST EDITION, FROM THE LIBRARY OF VIVIEN GREENE. Slim folio, pp. 10, [1 List of Plates; 1 blank] + 12 colour plates. Original quarter sage cloth, spine lettered in black, marbled grey paper boards. Bumped, boards faintly foxed. Inscribed in blue-black ink and Graham Greene’s minute hand: “My darling – never more so than on our 12th Christmas. 1939.”, Vivien Greene’s bookplate (green, printed in black with a floral illustration and ‘This book belongs to,’ featuring her ownership signature) and posthumous ex libris to front pastedown (added by bookseller Ann Gate for provenance), extra-illustrated with a clipped newspaper photograph of Vivien Greene to ffep, plus a clipped colour reproduction of Antonello da Messina’s ‘Crucifixion’ to final page, and featuring Gate’s clipped catalogue introduction pasted to the ffep (see left), and a folded article by the bookseller about cataloguing Vivien Greene’s collection to half-title, toned and foxed. Else, clean. Clipped and annotated copy of Ann Gate’s original catalogue description of this book laid in. In the original illustrated dust jacket: toned and spotted, creased and nicked, brown marks to rear panel.