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WAUGH [Evelyn] Scoop: a novel about journalists ... 1st edition, 1st issue with the "s" in "as" o...

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WAUGH [Evelyn] Scoop: a novel about journalists ... 1st edition, 1st issue with the  s  in  as  o...
WAUGH [Evelyn]
Scoop: a novel about journalists ... 1st edition, 1st issue with the "s" in "as" on the last line on p. 88, publisher's cloth, edges a little rubbed, corners knocked, 8vo., London: Chapman & Hall, 1938
Note: Davis et al XV.
Inscribed "Pansy with love from Evelyn." Described as a "veiled farewell to Waugh's earlier mode, and to his lost childish innocence" (Heath), Scoop prefigures the new maturity resulting from his second marriage. Lady Pansy Lamb [ne Packenham) shared a flat with Waugh's first wife Evelyn Gardner and remained a close friend.
£80-100