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WAUGH (EVELYN) Scott King's Modern Europe, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "F.B. Walker with all best wishes from Evelyn Waugh, Christmas 1947" on the front free endpaper, Chapman & Hall, 1947 image 1
WAUGH (EVELYN) Scott King's Modern Europe, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "F.B. Walker with all best wishes from Evelyn Waugh, Christmas 1947" on the front free endpaper, Chapman & Hall, 1947 image 2
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WAUGH (EVELYN)
Scott King's Modern Europe, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "F.B. Walker with all best wishes from Evelyn Waugh, Christmas 1947" on the front free endpaper, Chapman & Hall, 1947

14 November 2023, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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WAUGH (EVELYN)

Scott King's Modern Europe, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "F.B. Walker with all best wishes from Evelyn Waugh, Christmas 1947" on the front free endpaper, frontispiece, publisher's blue cloth, dust-jacket designed by John Piper, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1947

Footnotes

Christopher Sykes considered Scott-King's Modern Europe "a masterly minor work" writing that "it is beautifully thought out and constructed and those who enjoy Evelyn as a clown can find here all the farce they can want" (Sykes, Evelyn Waugh. A Biography, 1975).

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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