As PhiloBiblos
noted, a
first edition of
Graham Greene's
Rumour at Nightfall (1931) garnered £17,000 (about US$24,500) at Bloomsbury's Dec 14 auction. Greene viewed the Conrad-influenced
Rumour, in which a journalist hunts for an outlaw in Spain, as a very bad novel and refused to reprint it after its 1932 US edition. (Factoid of the day: According to a NYT review of Greene's
The Name of Action [1931], Greene was related to
Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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