Evelyn Waugh. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, A Conversation Piece. Chapman & Hall, London, 1957.

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Condition: Near Fine

Description: x-lib; paste down on first blank page; two minor indentations near bottom corner of front cover board; minor cover board soiling; from the private collection of the seller; please contact for pictures; cannot authenticate signature

Seller: Booksdoc, Russell, ON, Canada

WAUGH, Evelyn. THE ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD A Conversation Piece. Chapman & Hall, 1957.

Price: US$7426.73 + shipping

Description: First edition, one of about fifty large paper copies printed on hand made paper, for private circulation. Original red cloth titled in gilt to the spine. Edges uncut. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the front end paper, "Frank + Elizabeth with love from Evelyn" A near fine copy, with the spine a little faded as usual, but a crisp bright copy. Internally fresh with just a little foxing to the endpapers. Waugh knew Frank Pakenham and Elizabeth Harman at Oxford. He also met Pakenham's sister, Pansy who introduced him to her best friend, Evelyn Gardner, to whom Waugh became engaged and briefly and disastrously married. Pakenham's family had many associations among the literary bright young things: his other sister Violet was to marry Anthony Powell. Waugh valued Pakenham's social and political connections, and chose him as godfather to his eldest son Auberon. He was also a model for the character of Erridge, the eccentric socialist peer, in Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time.

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

WAUGH, Evelyn. THE ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD A Conversation Piece. Chapman & Hall, 1957.

Price: US$7749.63 + shipping

Description: First edition, one of about fifty large paper copies printed on hand made paper, for private circulation. Original red cloth titled in gilt to the spine. Bottom and fore edges uncut. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the front end paper to his friend and biographer, Christopher Sykes, "Christopher with love. Look out. It might be you next. Evelyn" A near fine copy with a touch of fading to the spine. Author and biographer, Sykes was a close friend of Robert Byron, with whom he co-authored the 1935 work, Innocence and Design. He first met Waugh in 1929 shortly after the collapse of Waugh's first marriage and the pair became firm friends. Sykes is now best known for his biography of Waugh, published in 1975.

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