ID 1016426
Lot 109 | A Handful of Dust
Estimate value
£ 5 000 – 8 000
Evelyn Waugh
WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966). A Handful of Dust. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1934.
An excellent copy of the first edition in book form of Waugh’s masterpiece. A Handful of Dust, titled after a line in Eliot's The Waste Land, offers a powerful critique of interwar British society, in particular the moral vacuity of the aristocracy. Davis 11.
Octavo. Frontispiece (foot of frontispiece loose). Original red and black marbled cloth (extremities a trifle rubbed, edges lightly spotted); original pictorial dust-jacket (a few short tears and chips at head and foot of spine and at folds); housed in a red morocco solander box.
| Artist: | Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966) |
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| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Printed books |
| Artist: | Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966) |
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| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Printed books |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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