ID 1016426
Lot 109 | A Handful of Dust
Valeur estimée
£ 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.
| Artiste: | Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966) |
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| Lieu d'origine: | Europe du Nord, Europe, Royaume-Uni |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Livres imprimés |
| Artiste: | Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966) |
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| Lieu d'origine: | Europe du Nord, Europe, Royaume-Uni |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Livres imprimés |
| Adresse de l'enchère |
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