WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966)

Lot 89
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Lot 89 | WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966)
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WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966)

Helena. London: Chapman & Hall, 1950.

First edition, one of about fifty large paper copies specially bound for the author, inscribed by Waugh to Clarissa Spencer-Churchill. Waugh presented a number of copies of his novel to his circle, and at Christmas wrote to Nancy Mitford, ‘No presents for anyone this year on account of the handsome Helena's I gave quite lately. Do you think that will wash?’ (Letters, p.343).



Large octavo (258 x 170mm). Original cream cloth, uncut (covers just a fraction soiled, some spotting to endpapers). Provenance: Evelyn Waugh (authorial ink presentation inscription on front free endpaper to:) – Clarissa Spencer-Churchill.





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