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WAUGH (EVELYN) Men at Arms, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "For Janet Stone/Souvenir of Stinchcombe/Ascension 1954 from Evelyn Waugh" on the front free endpaper, Chapman & Hall, 1952
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WAUGH (EVELYN)
Men at Arms, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "For Janet Stone/Souvenir of Stinchcombe/Ascension 1954 from Evelyn Waugh" on the front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (frayed, 2 old tears repaired), 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1952
Footnotes
Presentation copy inscribed by Waugh to Janet Stone, photographer, and wife of the wood-engraver Reynolds Stone who provided the illustrations to Waugh's The Holy Places (1953) and the stationery for Waugh's Piers Court, Stinchcombe.
Provenance: Janet Stone (1912-1998); thence by descent to the present owner.





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