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7. Black Mischief Chapman & Hall, 1932.
First edition. 8vo. Original marbled cloth in picto- rial dustwrapper. Retaining the green book society Book of the Month wraparound band. Frontispiece map of the “Azanian Empire”. A fine copy, in a near fine dustwrapper, bright and crisp with just a little wear and darkening to the spine ends. [46592] £2,250 The author’s third novel, drawing on his experiences in Africa which as he reported in his travel journal, Ninety Two Days, were “experiences vivid enough to demand translation into literary form”. Given the instant success of Waugh’s first two novels, the critical response was lukewarm, and the novel became better known for its at- tack on the Catholic journal, The Tablet, and the heated response from The Tablet’s Editor, Ernest Oldmeadow, who asserted that it was “a work both disgraceful and scandalous. It abounds in coarse and sometimes disgust- ing passages, and its climax is disgusting.” Needless to say this did nothing to harm sales.
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