Catalogue 87: Fine Books & Manuscripts

F I N E B O O K S & M A N U S C R I P T S

A SUPERB COPY OF WAUGH’S FIRST GREAT SUCCESS

49. Vile Bodies WAUGH, Evelyn

Chapman & Hall, 1930. First edition. Original marbled cloth in pictorial dustwrapper designed by the author. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper with the slightest trace of wear to the head of the spine but exceptionally bright and crisp. [40644] £37,500 The author’s successful second novel, charting the rise of the ‘Bright Young Things’. It is also one of the author’s scarcest books, particularly in such a well preserved dustwrapper.

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