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BOOKS AND LETTERS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANTHONY POWELL
Lot 331

WAUGH (EVELYN)
Black Mischief, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "For Violet with the deep admiration of her friend Evelyn Waugh" on front free endpaper, Chapman & Hall, 1932

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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WAUGH (EVELYN)

Black Mischief, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "For Violet with the deep admiration of her friend Evelyn Waugh" on front free endpaper, frontispiece map, publisher's cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1932

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Presentation copy inscribed to Violet Georgiana Powell [née Pakenham] (1912–2002) who, at the time Black Mischief was published, was writing articles for various newspapers including The Evening Standard. Violet married Anthony Powell in 1934, but would have known Waugh earlier, having various connections. Her brother, Lord Longford, was a friend of Waugh at Oxford, and, in the 1920s her sister, Lady Pansy Pakenham, was sharing a flat Ebury Street with Waugh's future wife Evelyn Gardner.

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