The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Lot 115
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Lot 115 | The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

Evelyn Waugh

WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966). The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. A Conversation Piece. London: Chapman & Hall, 1957.



First edition, one of about 50 special large-paper copies on hand made paper printed for private distribution. Presentation copy, inscribed by Waugh to his close friend and former commander Major-General Sir Robert Laycock (1907-1968), the dedicatee of Officers and Gentlemen (see lots 112 and 114): ‘Dear Bob, Don’t let Angie see this. She wouldn’t like it at all. Evelyn July 1957’. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a fictionalised account of Waugh’s severe hallucinations that he suffered in the mid 1950s as a result of bromide poisoning and is widely considered his last major work. John Raymond in his review of this book for the New Statesman, wrote that Waugh ‘happens to be the only major writer in English whose work reveals any genuine signs of development. It is possible to predict a new novel by Mr Graham Greene, say, a new Compton-Burnett, a Henry Green even, in a way that is impossible in the case of Mr Waugh’ (quoted in Hastings, p. 567). Davis 31.



Large octavo (252 x 156mm). (Slight spotting to endpapers.) Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed (spine and parts of covers sunned, slight mark to spine and a few minor marks to covers). Provenance: Major-General Sir Robert Laycock (1907-1968; author’s presentation inscription on preliminary free endpaper and Laycock’s armorial bookplate on upper pastedown).

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