Vile Bodies

Lot 429
02.06.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 6 930
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementEtats-Unis, New York
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ID 764572
Lot 429 | Vile Bodies
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$ 5 000 – 7 000
Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966). Vile Bodies. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1930.A presentation copy of the first edition of Waugh’s second novel. Inscribed to Christopher Sykes: "For Christopher by, for, from Evelyn." Writer Christopher Sykes was Evelyn Waugh's lifelong friend as well as biographer. After studying at Oxford, Sykes travelled to Central Asia with Robert Byron, a trip that formed the basis of Byron's Road to Oxiana (see lot 320 in Part Two). Sykes was also purportedly the inspiration for the character Roger Stillingfleet in Waugh's Work Suspended (1950). Davis et al., 5.Octavo. Original red and black cloth (rubbing to spine ends and tips). Provenance: Christopher Sykes, 1907-1986, travel writer (authorial inscription).
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