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WAUGH (EVELYN) Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future... With decorations by various eminent hands including the author's, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 5 OF 350 COPIES, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "For Bruce Walker, Chapman & Hall, 1953 image 1
WAUGH (EVELYN) Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future... With decorations by various eminent hands including the author's, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 5 OF 350 COPIES, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "For Bruce Walker, Chapman & Hall, 1953 image 2
WAUGH (EVELYN) Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future... With decorations by various eminent hands including the author's, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 5 OF 350 COPIES, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "For Bruce Walker, Chapman & Hall, 1953 image 3
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WAUGH (EVELYN)
Love Among the Ruins, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 5 OF 350 COPIES, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR For Bruce Walker, Chapman & Hall, 1953

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

Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future... With decorations by various eminent hands including the author's, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 5 OF 350 COPIES, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "For Bruce Walker, with the gratitude of the author Evelyn Waugh. To commemorate Her Gracious Majesty's coronation & the spacious days to come" on the limitation leaf, plates and decorations printed in red, contemporary half green morocco over boards decorated with coronation postage stamps, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g., original morocco-lipped slipcase decorated with coronation stamps, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1953

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AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY BOUND IN A SEEMINGLY UNIQUE BINDING, quite probably designed by Waugh, decorated with 2 1/2 d. red Coronation stamps, reflecting Waugh's inscription "To commemorate Her Gracious Majesty's Coronation & the spacious days to come". Waugh celebrated Elizabeth's Coronation Day at his home, Piers Court, attending Mass followed by "great upheaval providing fancy dresses and decorating the marc and cart" (Diaries, see Evelyn Waugh website, 1 June 2022).

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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