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WAUGH (EVELYN) Helena. A Novel, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "For F.B. Walker with deep gratitude for all his patient co operation from Evelyn Waugh" on the front free endpaper, Chapman and Hall, 1950 image 1
WAUGH (EVELYN) Helena. A Novel, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "For F.B. Walker with deep gratitude for all his patient co operation from Evelyn Waugh" on the front free endpaper, Chapman and Hall, 1950 image 2
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WAUGH (EVELYN)
Helena. A Novel, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED, Chapman and Hall, 1950

14 November 2023, 14:00 GMT
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WAUGH (EVELYN)

Helena. A Novel, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "For F.B. Walker with deep gratitude for all his patient co operation from Evelyn Waugh" on the front free endpaper, printed on hand-made paper, half-title, light spotting on free endpapers, untrimmed in publisher's white buckram, gilt lettering on spine, a few light marks [Davis Checklist A25], large 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1950

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ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND FOR PRESENTATION BY THE AUTHOR. "The indifferent reception given to what Evelyn believed to be by far his own best book was the greatest disappointment of his whole literary life" (Christopher 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 has a comfortable professional relationship... and 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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