British Dramatists by Graham Greene.  With 8 plates in color and 26 illustrations in black and white.  Published by William Collins of London, UK, 1946.  Very good book in very good minus dust jacket.  First Edition.  Brown paper covered boards with ivory lettering and graphics.  Edges at head and tail of board spine are chipped and rubbed and with closed tears on all corners. Fore-edge corners and adjacent edges are rubbed through; several small scuffs and rub throughs along the upper- and lower-most edges. Foxing starting on the external page edges. 48 pages. Some light foxing scattered throughout.  Gutters cracked at page 41 - see photo.  

Dust jacket is similarly colored and designed as the board panels.  Jacket is soiled overall and with small fox-like stains, more visible on the back jacket panel.  All folds are creased and scuffed.  Spine folds are rubbed through and with open and closed tears in several places.  Edges at head and tail of jacket spine have losses across the width; front corner at head of jacket spine has an adjacent closed 1 1/4" diagonal tear into the front panel.  The lower half of jacket spine has two horizontal closed tears across the width (1/2") connected by a 2 1/2" closed vertical tear along the front spine fold, creatine a flap of sorts.  Lower edge of front panel has a 5/8" closed vertical tear near to the lower fore-edge corner. Upper edge of back jacket panel has an approx. loss of 1/4" by 1/4" and with two adjacent closed tears of up to 3/8".  Upper fore-edge corner of back panel has loss of 3/8" by 5/8".  Upper edge of front panel has numerous chips and rubs, including loss on the fore-edge corner of slightly less than 1/4".  Inside flap corners are not clipped, no price is showing. 

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