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WAUGH (EVELYN) Work Suspended. Two Chapters of an Unfinished Novel, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "With all good wishes from Evelyn Waugh Xmas 1942" on the front free endpaper, Chapman & Hall, 1942
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WAUGH (EVELYN)
Work Suspended. Two Chapters of an Unfinished Novel, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "With all good wishes from Evelyn Waugh Xmas 1942" on the front free endpaper, light spotting to edges of text block, publisher's red cloth gilt lettered on spine, slight fading to spine, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1942
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Important association copy inscribed to the production manager at Chapman and Hall, who saw the book through the press during the difficult War period. Waugh had started work on the novel in 1939 but, as he noted in the dedication "It is now clear to me that even if I were again to have leisure and will to finish it, the works would be in vain, for the world in which and for which it was designed, has ceased to exist", so only two chapters were completed. "Evelyn wanted the fragment published as it was... It was the best thing he had written, and he was determined that it should stand on its own." (Christopher Sykes, Evelyn Waugh. A Biography, 1975). After much dispute with his publishers it was published on 21 December 1942 in a print run of only 500 copies.
Provenance: F.B. Walker (1910-1993), presentation inscription from the author. Walker was the Production Manager at Waugh's publisher Chapman and Hall during the war, effectively running the department despite not being on the board. "It was he who had seen Put out More Flags, Work Suspended, and Brideshead through the press, and he and Waugh had a comfortable professional relationship...Walker was the only person left at Chapman & Hall for whom he felt the slightest sympathy" (Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966, 1992). In September 1945, when Walker was overlooked for promotion to the Board in favour of John McDougall, Waugh resigned his directorship of the company in disgust. Subsequently he continued sending Walker warmly inscribed copies of his later books; by descent to the vendor.