The Lawless Roads. A Mexican Journey.
£150.00
Publisher
Longmans, Green and Co.
Place
London
Date
1939
Synopsis
With ten illustrations.
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. FIRST STATE, WITH GILT SPINE TITLES. 8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 306 pp. In original red cloth, gilt. Extremities worn and spine darkened, with small chips at head of spine. Occasional spotting, but otherwise a very good copy. Signature on title page and name written at head of Prologue. Illustrated by 8 pages of black and white photographic plates, including frontispiece. Map endpapers. First edition, first state of the early travel narrative, principally in the Mexican states, Tabasco and Chiapas, by the novelist, Graham Greene. The author was sponsored by his publisher to investigate the effects of forced anti-Catholic secularisation in the country. The journey also inspired his 1940 novel, The Power and the Glory.
[Stock No. 27976]
