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SIGNED BOOKS] Group of seven signed literary and theatrical volumes , comprising WAUGH, EVELYN. The Loved One. An Anglo-American Tragedy. London: [1948]. One of 250 copies signed by Waugh and the illustrator, Stuart Boyle, this copy additionally noted in Waugh's hand as "Major G. Gordon's Copy." Publisher's cloth. Spine very slightly faded, generally clean; WAUGH, EVELYN. Basil Seal Rides Again or the Rake's Redress. New York: 1963. One of 1000 signed copies. Publisher's blue cloth. Frontispiece. Boards slightly marked; MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET. The Summing Up. Garden City: 1954. One of 391 signed copies. Publisher's cloth, slipcase. Fine; MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET. A Writer's Notebook. London: 1949. One of 1000 signed copies. Publisher's parchment backed boards, slipcase. Wear to case, a few marks to boards; MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET. For Services Rendered. London: 1932. Inscribed on the front blank. Cloth in jacket. Chipped; OLIVIER, LAURENCE. On Acting New York: [1986]. One of 250 signed copies. Publisher's cloth, slipcase. Scuffed; O'NEILL, EUGENE. Ah, Wilderness! New York: 1933. One of 325 signed copies. Half morocco. Fine; Together with two unsigned volumes, being Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood (London: 1954, first edition, cloth in jacket, slipcase) and George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House (London: 1919, first edition, cloth in jacket, half-morocco box). The lot nine volumes. C Estate of William W. Appleton