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Waugh’s Brilliant Debut, In A Fine Jacket Of His Own Design 34. Decline And Fall WAUGH, Evelyn Chapman & Hall, 1928. First edition. Original red and black patterned boards lettered in gilt, in green pictorial dustwrapper designed by the author. Six full page line drawings
by the author. A fine copy with a little foxing to the page edg - es and preliminaries in a very good dustwrapper indeed, which shows the almost inevitable fading to the spine and a tiny chip to the spine label. Short closed tear to the base of the front joint, but an otherwise bright and crisp copy, free from the splits and wear to which this dustwrapper now seems prone. [42729] £15,000 The author’s brilliant first novel, described by Connolly as “anarchic and experimental, surely one of the wittiest and most original of first novels.”
Waugh’s Most Ambitious Novel
35. A Handful Of Dust WAUGH, Evelyn
Chapman & Hall, 1934. First edition. Original mar- bled cloth in pictorial dustwrapper in black and red. Frontispiece sketch of Hetton Abbey. A fine copy, with a little foxing to the page edges, in a superb, near fine dustwrapper which just shows a trace of wear to the spine ends and a couple of short closed tears, but is uncommonly clean and crisp. [42578] £19,500 One of the author’s scarcest books, partic- ularly so in such a fine dustwrapper. Criti - cally regarded as the high point of Waugh’s literary output and as one of the great novels of the twentieth century.
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