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BOOKS AND LETTERS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANTHONY POWELL
Lot 326

WAUGH (EVELYN)
Rossetti. His Life and Works, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Tony from Evelyn, April 1928" on front free endpaper, Duckworth, 1928

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WAUGH (EVELYN)

Rossetti. His Life and Works, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Tony from Evelyn, April 1928" on front free endpaper, 8 plates, publisher's cloth, 8vo, Duckworth, 1928

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An important association copy, inscribed by Waugh to Powell, who was at time working as a reader at Duckworth. Having known each other at Oxford, the two writers met again whilst attending courses at the L.C.C. school (Waugh in cabinet-making, Powell in typography). "A little while later, very hard up and seeking a commission to write a book, it was Tony who introduced me to my first publisher" (Waugh, A Little Learning, 1964, p.201). The book met with good critical reaction, exemplified by a "front-page spread in the Times Literary Supplement [which] ensured good publicity, but there was little money to be made from such a book" (ODNB).

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