The Labyrinthine Ways

The Labyrinthine Ways.

New York. Viking.1940.

First edition. Inscribed.

Letter of provenance included.

Graham Greene’s own copy inscribed for Ric Gekoski in Antibes.

As a friend of Greene’s, Gekoski, writer and a major figure in  Antiquarian Books was responsible for Greene’s archive and given access to his private library in Paris.

The Labyrinthine Ways is the American edition of The Power and the Glory, Greene’s best book.

Set in Mexico in the 1920’s during the Cristero Wars , it tells the story of the pursuit of redemption by the unnamed priest now known as ‘the whisky priest.’ Greene’s lifelong struggle with Catholicism underpins this extraordinary novel.