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WAUGH (EVELYN) Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, AUTHOR'S PRE-PUBLICATION PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "For F.B. Walker whose pre-natal care made the book possible, with gratitude from Evelyn Waugh" on the front free endpaper, Chapman & Hall, 1945 [1944] image 1
WAUGH (EVELYN) Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, AUTHOR'S PRE-PUBLICATION PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "For F.B. Walker whose pre-natal care made the book possible, with gratitude from Evelyn Waugh" on the front free endpaper, Chapman & Hall, 1945 [1944] image 2
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WAUGH (EVELYN)
Brideshead Revisited, AUTHOR'S PRE-PUBLICATION PRESENTATION COPY, Chapman & Hall, 1945 [1944]

14 November 2023, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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WAUGH (EVELYN)

Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, AUTHOR'S PRE-PUBLICATION PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "For F.B. Walker whose pre-natal care made the book possible, with gratitude from Evelyn Waugh" on the front free endpaper, half-title, "T.H. Saunders" watermark to title and dedication leaf, pencil numeral "353" on final page "304", contemporary morocco-backed cloth, lettered "F.B. Walker" in gilt on upper cover, t.e.g., others untrimmed, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1945 [1944]

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IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY OF A SPECIAL PRE-PUBLICATION EDITION OF BRIDESHEAD, INSCRIBED TO F.B. WALKER, THE MAN "WHOSE PRE-NATAL CARE MADE THE BOOK POSSIBLE".

Printed in a run of fifty copies at his own expense in 1944, Waugh sent these pre-publication copies to his closest friends and associates to garner opinions, after which he revised the text prior to the first trade edition published in the following year. Copies were issued in printed green wrappers, but this copy has a special bespoke binding stamped with the recipient's name on the upper cover. "During the war, and affable and efficient fellow, F.B. Walker, had taken over many jobs [at Chapman & Hall] including that of Production Manager of the General side... It was he who seen... Brideshead through the press..." (Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966, 1992).

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.

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