5/19/2023 0 Comments Evelyn waugh 1938![]() ![]() Scoop was the last full-length novel in the first half of Waugh's career, composed in the kinetic, comic style for which he was praised. He threatened Chapman & Hall with a lawsuit which resulted in the removal of the masthead in all later issues. Lord Beaverbook, proprietor of the Daily Express was not amused with Waugh's scathing spoof of him in Scoop, nor was he amused with the dust jacket illustration which parodied his masthead. (Some pale foxing to preliminaries.) Original red and black "marbled" cloth (endpapers slightly discolored) pictorial dust jacket (light wear at extremities, soft vertical crease along spine) ADVERTISING BELLY BAND.įIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE JACKET, with the Daily Beast masthead present and with the scarce advertising belly band first issue, with "s" in "as" in the last line of p.88. SCARCE: no advance copies in wrappers have appeared at auction in at least thirty years according to American Book Prices Current. ![]() UNCORRECTED ADVANCE ISSUE OF THE FIRST ISSUE. Original brown wrappers, paper title-label on front cover (upper right hand corner of front wrapper town away). ![]()
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