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Black Mischief

Lot 108
28.09.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
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£ 17 640
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 108 | Black Mischief
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£ 15 000 – 25 000
Black Mischief

Evelyn Waugh

WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966). Black Mischief. London: Chapman & Hall, 1932.



An outstanding literary association copy: first edition, inscribed by Waugh to Graham Greene: ‘Not for Crutchley [sic] but for Graham from Evelyn’. Waugh and Greene met while studying at Oxford in 1922, but did not become friends until fifteen years later when, in 1937, the two were affiliated with the upscale literary publication Night and Day. Greene, the editor, granted a weekly book page to the ever-impoverished Waugh. After a rocky start haggling over commissions, Waugh and Greene became close friends. Waugh praised Greene's The Heart of the Matter in the Tablet: ‘... of Mr. Graham Greene alone among contemporary writers one can say without affectations that his breaking silence with a new serious novel is a literary “event”.. [He] is a story-teller of genius.’ Davis 8.



Octavo. Frontispiece map. (Some very pale spotting.) Original red and black ‘marbled’ cloth (spine slightly cocked, light wear at foot of spine); original dust-jacket supplied from another copy (somewhat rubbed and marked, chipped at head and foot of spine and flap creases, short tear at head affecting title). Provenance: E.E. Cretchley (signature on bookplate) – Graham Greene (1904-1991; presentation inscription from the author; estate bookplate) – Roger Rechler (his sale, Christie’s NY, October 11, 2002, lot 311, sold before the addition of a supplied dust-jacket for $45,410 including premium).

Artist:Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
Auction house category:Printed books
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