Lawrence Green. Memories of a Friendship (with 10 contemporary newspaper cuttings on Green\'s life; 1973)

The author was the nearest person to being Lawrence Green\'s son. His mother, Lulu, was a lifelong friend of Green\'s. He dedicated his first book to her and named his sailing boat after her. Although the book may tell the reader much about Green that he did not know, Green himself revealed a good deal in his autobiographical \"Where Men Still Dream\" as well as in the prefaces and acknowledgments in several of his other books.

To collectors of Lawrence Green Books (see Lot 124), Yates-Benyon is particularly valuable in dispelling the myth that Green wrote different books for other publishers during his long association with Timmins. He records that six of these books were \"originally published in South Africa and published later in England under different titles\".

The newspaper cuttings (see images) shed more light on Green, with a number of writers eminent in their own right rating Green more seriously than he did himself.

The unclipped gold dustjacket (R4.95), portrait and red and black lettering to the panel and black only to the spine, is lightly chipped and rubbed. The plain beige endpapers carry no owner\'s name. The xi + 224 pp of text, appendix and index plus frontispiece and 15 other photographs in 10 inserted plates are clean and in as-new condition except for some pencil marks on the checklist of Green\'s books in the appendix.