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BOOKS AND LETTERS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANTHONY POWELL
Lot 338

WAUGH (EVELYN)
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. A Conversation Piece, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "For Tony with deep respect from Evelyn" on front free endpaper, Chapman & Hall, 1957

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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WAUGH (EVELYN)

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. A Conversation Piece, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "For Tony with deep respect from Evelyn" on front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1957

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Of The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold Anthony Powell wrote "I find it possibly the best thing Waugh ever wrote... the 'voices' on the boat seem to me to make a sequence unequalled in their combined funniness and macabre horror" (Miscellaneous Verdicts, 1990, p.317).

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