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WAUGH (EVELYN) Men at Arms, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "For Patrick [Balfour] with love from Evelyn, Sept 6th 1952. I say why not send the copy you bought to 'a friend in the forces' instead of exchanging it. There are too many houses which lack one. E. Sept 16th" on front free endpaper, Chapman and Hall, 1952
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WAUGH (EVELYN)
Men at Arms, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "For Patrick [Balfour] with love from Evelyn, Sept 6th 1952. I say why not send the copy you bought to 'a friend in the forces' instead of exchanging it. There are too many houses which lack one. E. Sept 16th" on front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1952
Footnotes
"WHY NOT SEND THE COPY YOU BOUGHT TO 'A FRIEND IN THE FORCES'" - a witty inscription, perhaps reflecting Waugh's concerns about a book which when published "had what is called a 'mixed reception'" (Christopher Sykes, Evelyn Waugh, 1975), and which he advised Nancy Mitford to "leave.. until you have read the whole of the national library. I sent it [to her] with full preliminary warnings".
Provenance: Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904-1976).





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