Labels (Inscription By D.B.Wyndham Lewis)

A First UK printing published by Duckworth in 1930. 8vo dark blue cloth boards with silver stamped title and author name on the spine, 206pp with seven illustrations and a pictorial dust jacket. The book is a detached commentary on Waugh’s brief honeymoon with his wife, also called Evelyn during 1929.The BOOK is in VERY GOOD condition with the boards being clean with some sunning to the spine and very light bumping to the corners and spine tips. Internally there is an inscription on the front free endpaper which reads: 'To Ronnie and Mary, with love,from Wyndham, Christmas 1930'.The edge of the text block has some foxing spots and there is some scattered foxing throughout the text in places.The distinctive original cream WRAPPER is unclipped and is in VERY GOOD condition.It shows the original price of 8/6 NET and is now protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. There are spots of foxing particularly on the verso of the jacket and on the rear flap.The spine is age toned and the fore edges discoloured.There is a 60mm split in the middle of the rear shoulder of the spine and a 40mm tear at the bottom of the front shoulder. There is also a 2cm tear across the middle of the spine. The top and bottom edges are chipped with a little loss to the fore edge corners and spine tips.There is also a 7mm x 15mm section missing on the bottom front right-hand corner.There are also a number of small tears of 2-5mm top and bottom and two larger 2-3 cm tears top and bottom.The wrapper has the VERY RARE ‘Recommended by the Book Society’ Sticker applied to the front panel. This was used instead of the usual wrap-around band in order to blend in with the distinctive design of the wrapper’s front cover.The inscription is an intriguing one.It is possible that the book was given as a Christmas gift by the author D B Wyndham Lewis.We have however been unable to identify the recipients of the inscription.Despite the faults described, this copy presents well.