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BOOKS AND LETTERS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANTHONY POWELL
Lot 336

WAUGH (EVELYN)
Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 25 OF 350 COPIES, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "For Tony with great & growing admiration from Evelyn" on colophon, Chapman & Hall, 1953

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
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WAUGH (EVELYN)

Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 25 OF 350 COPIES, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "For Tony with great & growing admiration from Evelyn" on colophon, frontispiece and illustrations "by various eminent hands including the author's", publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, t.e.g., 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1953

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A warm and admiring inscription, written following the publication of Powell's A Buyer's Market (1952), the second of his Dance to the Music of Time novels. Waugh's "admiration for Anthony Powell was intense, so much so that he resented any disparaging remarks about his writing" (Christopher Sykes, Evelyn Waugh. A Biography, 1975, p.431.).

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