The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy

Verkauft
$ 2 142
AuktionsdatumClassic
02.06.2022 10:00UTC -04:00
Auctioneer
CHRISTIE'S
Veranstaltungsort
Vereinigten Staaten, New York
Archiv
Die Auktion ist abgeschlossen. Es können keine Gebote mehr abgegeben werden.
Archive
ID 764578
Los 435 | The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy
WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966). The Loved One, an Anglo-American Tragedy. London, Chapman & Hall, 1948.Presentation copy and one of 250 larged paper copies. Inscribed: "For Andrea, neighbor of Joyboy, with love from Evelyn Dec 1948." Waugh’s satirical short novel was inspired by his visit to Los Angeles. The trip had been paid for by MGM Studios in hope of gaining the movie adaptation rights to Brideshead Revisited. Waugh found the visit to be worth his time in writing material: “I found a deep mine of literary gold in the cemetery of Forest Lawn at the work of the morticians and intend to get to work immediately on a novelette staged there” (Davie, ed., The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, 1976). Andrea was most likely Andrea Cowdin, the wife of John Cheever Cowdin, the head of Universal Pictures. "Joyboy" is a reference to a character in The Loved One, Mr. Joyboy, the senior mortician at Whispering Glades. This copy is number five. Davis et al., 13. Octavo. Publisher's green cloth (spine slightly faded, a little spotting, tips bumped). Provenance: Andrea Cowdin (authorial inscription).
Adresse der Versteigerung CHRISTIE'S
20 Rockefeller Plaza
10020 New York
Vereinigten Staaten
Vorschau
19.05.2022 – 02.06.2022
Telefon +1 212 636 2000
Fax +1 212 636 4930
E-Mail
NutzungsbedingungenNutzungsbedingungen
Versand Postdienst
Kurierdienst
Selbstabholung
Zahlungsarten Banküberweisung
GeschäftszeitenGeschäftszeiten
Mo 09:30 – 17:00   
Di 09:30 – 17:00   
Mi 09:30 – 17:00   
Do 09:30 – 17:00   
Fr 09:30 – 17:00   
Sa geschlossen
So geschlossen

Verwandte Begriffe