The Loved One - True First Edition
Published by Horizon, at the Curwen Press London, 1948
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Barracks Books, Nash, United KingdomBarracks Books
AbeBooks seller since December 17, 2014
Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 150.00
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True First Edition of the complete text of Evelyn Waugh's 'The Loved One', published in February 1948. Published by Cyril Connolly in Horizon Vol.XVII No.98. Intact in publisher's original soft card wraps sewn into full green calf. Previous owner's neat signature inside front wrap. A little very light foxing to front cover and prelims but otherwise Fine. Having written what Connolly describes in his introduction as "A Swiftean satire on the burial customs of Southern California", and " in my opinion, one of the most perfect short novels of the last ten years" Waugh explained "I anticipated ructions, and one reason for my seeking publication in HORIZON was the confidence that its readers were tough stuff." Connolly told his readers "This fierce, luminous, passionate love-story is only incidentally witty. It is dans le vrai. And at a time when most of us lie prostrate with winter-gloom, out comes this beautifully constructed, irresistible and haunting affair, this crisp cos lettuce. Fortunate guinea-pigs go to!". …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Loved One - True First Edition
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
- Publisher
- Horizon, at the Curwen Press London
- Publication year
- 1948
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- 20th Century Literature
Barracks Books
Nash, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since December 17, 2014
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