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New York: Little Brown and Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1945. First American Edition. Hardcover. The book is tightly bound, the boards are clean ; top edge greyed page edges browned. The dust jacket is worn to the extremities, the back is grubby and marked. The boards of the hardback are grey. The condition of the Penguin paperback Is commensurate with Its age. ; From the library of David Lodge. David John Lodge is an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, some of his novels satirise academic life, another theme is Roman Catholicism. Two of his novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize; he also served as the chairman on the Booker Prize jury in 1989. Lodge has also written television screenplays and three stage plays. After retiring, he continued to publish literary criticism. Lodge's thesis for his MA was on Roman Catholic writers and the "two stars" of that thesis were Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene; both… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1945. First edition of Waugh's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Evelyn Waugh on the title page. Waugh issued a pre-publication edition of the novel in a run of 50 copies. These were printed and specially bound to distribute among friends for Christmas and to solicit any revisions. Several changes were made as a result of his friends' comments, including suggested alterations by Fr. Martin D'Arcy, Cyril Connolly, and Nancy Mitford. A letter from Graham Greene, Waugh's friend and recipient of one of the 50 copies had indicated that Waugh may have only inscribed 19 of the 50 copies (Jeffrey Young Collection, Sotheby's London, 14 December 1992, lot 182). It is because of the specially issued limited edition that so few copies of the first trade edition exist which are signed. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with tape repair and some closed tears. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Exceptionally rare and desirable signed. "Waugh's… Read More