Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. The pages are companionable, creamy, clean, clear, comfortable, certain. On the copyright page note that the '8' of 1938 is raised and is often confused as a '3'. The front pastedown has an ex-libris plate designed by the extraordinary Robert Giddings. The bad cover has some splash marks from storage. This copy's cover has some wear about the edges and head and foot of the spine. Mrs Stitch was vibrantly based on Diana Cooper (who indeed read and wrote all of her letters in bed her driving was eccentric and wild until the day she gave up in her eighties her loathing of taxi-drivers was impeccable). The hapless journalist was based on William Deedes (later a legendary Fleet Street editor himself his barely repressed curiosity remained until his last days as did his taste for Scotch). Scoop is, of course, Waugh's first real comedy novel. The last word on page 88 is 'as' - this indicates that this copy is a TRUE FIRST edition and FIRST IMPRESSION.

Find clues for 1938 novel by Evelyn Waugh (5) or most any crossword answer or clues for crossword answers. Search for crossword clues found in the Daily Celebrity, NY Times, Daily Mirror, Telegraph and major publications. Quite self-consciously, Waugh re-invented his style with more weight and solemnity, a style which is first fully realized in Brideshead Revisited. Answers for 1938 novel by Evelyn Waugh (5) crossword clue, 5 letters. Scoop was the last full-length novel in the first half of Waugh's career, composed in the kinetic, comic style for which he was praised. He threatened Chapman & Hall with a lawsuit which resulted in the removal of the masthead in all later issues.

Lord Beaverbook, proprietor of the Daily Express was not amused with Waugh's scathing spoof of him in Scoop, nor was he amused with the dust jacket illustration which parodied his masthead. (Some pale foxing to preliminaries.) Original red and black 'marbled' cloth (endpapers slightly discolored) pictorial dust jacket (light wear at extremities, soft vertical crease along spine) ADVERTISING BELLY BAND.įIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE JACKET, with the Daily Beast masthead present and with the scarce advertising belly band first issue, with 's' in 'as' in the last line of p.88. SCARCE: no advance copies in wrappers have appeared at auction in at least thirty years according to American Book Prices Current. UNCORRECTED ADVANCE ISSUE OF THE FIRST ISSUE. Original brown wrappers, paper title-label on front cover (upper right hand corner of front wrapper town away). Michael J Ritchie Classics, Humour 1930s, africa, classic, comedy, evelyn waugh, funny, journalism Leave a.

1938 novel by evelyn waugh