WAUGH (EVELYN)The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. A Conversation Piece, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Bruce [Walker] with gratitude from Evelyn July 17th 1957" on the front free endpaper, half-title, publisher's red buckram, spine faded, large 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1957FootnotesA presentation copy of one of the approximately fifty copies of the specially bound large paper edition.
Provenance: F.B. Walker (1910-1993), presentation inscription from the author. Walker was the Production Manager at Waugh's publisher Chapman and Hall during the war, effectively running the department despite not being on the board. "It was he who had seen Put out More Flags, Work Suspended, and Brideshead through the press, and he and Waugh had a comfortable professional relationship... Walker was the only person left at Chapman & Hall for whom he felt the slightest sympathy" (Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966, 1992). In September 1945, when Walker was overlooked for promotion to the Board in favour of John McDougall, Waugh resigned his directorship of the company in disgust. Subsequently he continued sending Walker warmly inscribed copies of his later books; by descent to the vendor.
WAUGH (EVELYN)The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. A Conversation Piece, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Bruce [Walker] with gratitude from Evelyn July 17th 1957" on the front free endpaper, half-title, publisher's red buckram, spine faded, large 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1957FootnotesA presentation copy of one of the approximately fifty copies of the specially bound large paper edition.
Provenance: F.B. Walker (1910-1993), presentation inscription from the author. Walker was the Production Manager at Waugh's publisher Chapman and Hall during the war, effectively running the department despite not being on the board. "It was he who had seen Put out More Flags, Work Suspended, and Brideshead through the press, and he and Waugh had a comfortable professional relationship... Walker was the only person left at Chapman & Hall for whom he felt the slightest sympathy" (Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966, 1992). In September 1945, when Walker was overlooked for promotion to the Board in favour of John McDougall, Waugh resigned his directorship of the company in disgust. Subsequently he continued sending Walker warmly inscribed copies of his later books; by descent to the vendor.
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