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WAUGH (EVELYN)
Black Mischief, 1962; Scoop, 1964, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES, EACH INSCRIBED "For Patrick [Balfour] with regards Evelyn", Chapman and Hall, 1964; with a typescript article by Patrick Balfour about his friendship with Waugh (3)

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WAUGH (EVELYN)

Black Mischief, 1962; Scoop, 1964, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES, EACH INSCRIBED "For Patrick [Balfour] with regards Evelyn", publisher's blue cloth, dust-jacket, 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1964; with a typescript article by Patrick Balfour about his friendship with Waugh (3)

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PRESENTATION COPIES OF WAUGH'S TWO "EAST AFRICAN" NOVELS, inscribed to his life-long friend and fellow author-journalist Patrick Balfour, Lord Kinross.

"I remember Evelyn first at Oxford, a convivial, pink-faced, blue-tweeded figure with, almost invariably a glass in his hand.... [but] the time I really got to know him was in his travelling days, those years between 1928 and 1937... [including] Abyssinia, where we served as war correspondents..." (Patrick Balfour, typescript memoir, included in the lot). During this period, whilst Balfour was correspondent for The Evening Standard and Daily Sketch, the two men were very close companions, Waugh writing in a letter to his future wife Laura, from Addis Ababa in 1935, "... I'm not really a journalist and it is black leg labour. Fortunately an old chum name of Balfour is here and that makes all the difference". Scoop was sub-titled "A Novel about Journalists", Waugh noting in the preface to the re-issued edition that the setting of the novel "is identical with that of Abyssinia and the description of life among the journalists in Jacksonberg is very close to Addis Ababa at this time".

Provenance: Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904-1976).

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