WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-66). Decline and Fall. An Illustrated Novelette, London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1928. 8° (187 x 120mm). Half title, frontispiece and 5 full-page illustrations by Evelyn Waugh. (A few light spots at lower edges, very minor red ink stain from binding on front endpapers.) Original marbled-effect cloth, spine lettered in gilt, green pictorial dust-jacket with label printed in red on upper wrapper (backstrip and edges very slightly faded, tiny chips at foot of backstrip, small light stain on lower wrapper). A FINE COPY. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "For Vyvyan [Holland] with best wishes from Evelyn." Evelyn Waugh is recorded as meeting Vyvyan Holland, Oscar Wilde's son, shortly after the publication of Decline and Fall . The event is briefly recorded in Selina Hasting's biography of Waugh: "Evelyn accompanied his wife to the parties she so loved including a 'tropical' party given by Oscar Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland, where the Bystander flashlighted them looking startled and ill at ease in their safari kit." (Selina Hastings, Evelyn Waugh , London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994). The illustration above is repeated on the back cover of this catalogue.
WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-66). Decline and Fall. An Illustrated Novelette, London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1928. 8° (187 x 120mm). Half title, frontispiece and 5 full-page illustrations by Evelyn Waugh. (A few light spots at lower edges, very minor red ink stain from binding on front endpapers.) Original marbled-effect cloth, spine lettered in gilt, green pictorial dust-jacket with label printed in red on upper wrapper (backstrip and edges very slightly faded, tiny chips at foot of backstrip, small light stain on lower wrapper). A FINE COPY. FIRST EDITION, IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "For Vyvyan [Holland] with best wishes from Evelyn." Evelyn Waugh is recorded as meeting Vyvyan Holland, Oscar Wilde's son, shortly after the publication of Decline and Fall . The event is briefly recorded in Selina Hasting's biography of Waugh: "Evelyn accompanied his wife to the parties she so loved including a 'tropical' party given by Oscar Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland, where the Bystander flashlighted them looking startled and ill at ease in their safari kit." (Selina Hastings, Evelyn Waugh , London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994). The illustration above is repeated on the back cover of this catalogue.
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