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BOOKS AND LETTERS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANTHONY POWELL
Lot 329

WAUGH (EVELYN)
Labels. A Mediterranean Journal, NUMBER 109 OF 110 COPIES "SPECIALLY BOUND WITH A PIECE OF THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT INSERTED", Duckworth, 1930; idem, FIRST EDITION, publisher's cloth, spine faded, 1930 (2)

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WAUGH (EVELYN)

Labels. A Mediterranean Journal, NUMBER 109 OF 110 COPIES "SPECIALLY BOUND WITH A PIECE OF THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT INSERTED", 7 plates, folding leaf of manuscript (33-lines) by Waugh inserted as issued, colour-printed pictorial endpapers, publisher's buckram, 8vo, Duckworth, 1930; idem, FIRST EDITION, publisher's cloth, spine faded, 1930 (2)

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ONE OF 110 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, WITH A SHEET OF THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT BY WAUGH BOUND IN. Labels was the first of Waugh's six travel books, "and unique among them for its artful mixture of factual record and fiction" (Christopher Sykes, Evelyn Waugh. A Biography, 1975, p.103).

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