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A DEDICATION COPY 74. WAUGH, Evelyn BLACK MISCHIEF Chapman & Hall, 1932.
First edition, large paper issue. A dedication copy, inscribed by Waugh to Mary Lygon on the limitation page,“For Sweet Blondy with much love from BOAZ [housed within swastika device]”. An out of series copy from an edition of 250 special copies on laid paper with additional illustrations by the author. Original violet buckram with gilt titles to the spine and vignette to the upper cover. Eight full page illustrations, none of which appear in the trade edition, plus one full page map. A good copy with some fading to the spine and edges of the boards, minor wear to the spine ends and lower corners. [37531] £15,000 Waugh met Hugh Lygon, second son of the Earl Beauchamp, at Oxford and, rather like Charles Ryder in Brideshead, not only formed a close friendship (cut short by Lygon’s death in 1936), but fell in love with the aristocratic pleasure garden of privilege and hedonism which the Lygons appeared to inhabit. He was invited to Christmas at Madresfield, the Lygon’s Worcestershire es - tate, in 1931. He had already met the younger Lygon sisters, Mary and Dorothy and was much taken with them, particularly Mary, the older by two years, who was blonde and beautiful: still very much a bright young thing and soon to be drawn into the fast set. Dorothy was plain and bespectacled. The parallels between the three Lygons and the Marchmains, both individually and as a family unit, are striking. Being of no fixed abode, Waugh came to spend much of the next year at Madresfield. Dorothy Lygon recalls Waugh writing “slowly and reluctantly a great deal of Black Mischief while staying with us, groaning loudly as he shut himself away... for a few hours every day.” The Lygon girls “hindered more than they helped, having no qualms about disturbing him and dragging him away to join them in whatever was going on.” - Paula Byrne (Mad World) Waugh would also use the girls and other house guests as models for his illustrations included in the large-paper edition. Despite all the distractions, he completed Black Mischief while at Madres- field and dedicated it, “With love to Mary & Dorothy Lygon”. PROVENANCE: Lady Mary Lygon (authorial presentation inscription, and ownership signature).
WAUGH TO GREENE 75. WAUGH, Evelyn THE HOLY PLACES Queen Anne Press, 1952.
First edition. Number 54 of a limited edition of 950 printed on mould made paper. Au- thor’s presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper to friend and fellow novelist, Graham Greene, “Graham from Evelyn Christmas Card 1952”. Full red buckram with gilt vignette on the upper cover and titles on the spine, in grey pictorial dustwrapper illustrated by Reynolds Stone. Top edge red, others uncut. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Reynolds Stone. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, which shows a little wear to the spine ends and corners. [35328] £12,500 A monumental association copy between two of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Waugh and Greene were contemporaries at Oxford though not friends at the time. They began a long friendship and series of correspondence in the mid thirties. Both were famous converts to Catholicism, though differed greatly in their interpretation of their religion. Politically they also differed: Greene the staunch socialist whilst Waugh maintained an aristocratic right wing leaning. Despite numerous arguments they maintained their friendship born from a mutual respect of each others work, when both authors found friends hard to come by.
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