Evelyn Waugh SIGNED BY John Piper. Scott Kings Modern Europe. Chapman and Hall, UK, 1947.

Price: US$450.23 + shipping

Description: 1st Edition 1947. Inscription from John Piper who designed the wrapper and frontis for Waugh. A unique item. Book is very good++ with bright boards. Contents slightly age toned. and clean contents. The wrapper is very good with the normal foxing to the covers and a little loss to spine top. Slight rubbing to edges. More images can eb taken upon request. Ref ###003182

Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom

WAUGH, Evelyn. SCOTT-KING'S MODERN EUROPE. Chapman & Hall, 1947.

Price: US$1768.76 + shipping

Description: First edition. Original blue cloth in pictorial dustwrapper. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the endpaper, "For J.Paul/ with best wishes from / Evelyn Waugh". A very good copy indeed in a very good dustwrapper, which has just minor rubbing to the corners. Dustwrapper designed by John Piper, and the image is repeated as the frontis. A satire on post WWII totalitarianism.

Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom

WAUGH, Evelyn.. Scott-King's Modern Europe.. London Chapman & Hall, 1947.

Price: US$3327.50 + shipping

Description: First edition, inscribed by the author; 8vo; some toning to endpapers, scattered light spotting, heaviest to final gathering; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with the original unclipped pictorial dustjacket, faintly soiled, else very good. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in pencil to the front free endpaper, 'For Christopher / with love from / Evelyn / Christmas 1947'. The recipient was the English author Christopher Sykes (1907-1986).

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom