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BOOKS AND LETTERS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANTHONY POWELL
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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, Chapman & Hall, 1957
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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
Footnotes
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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