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WAUGH (EVELYN)
Officers and Gentlemen, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO L.P. HARTLEY, inscribed "Leslie with warm regards from Evelyn" on front free endpaper, Chapman and Hall, 1955

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
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WAUGH (EVELYN)

Officers and Gentlemen, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO L.P. HARTLEY, inscribed "Leslie with warm regards from Evelyn" on front free endpaper, publisher's blue cloth, dust-jacket (unclipped, slightly frayed at head of spine, toned) [Davis Checklist A30], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1955

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Provenance: L.P. Hartley (1895-1972), presentation inscription from the author; given by Hartley to his friend Janet Stone (1912-1998), photographer, wife of Reynolds Stone; thence by descent to the present owner.

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