Helena
Chapman & Hall, 1950.
First edition. Large paper issue, limited to 50 copies. Original white buckram lettered in gilt to the spine. Pages uncut. Author's presentation copy, inscribed to fellow author, Rupert Croft-Cooke on the front endpaper, "For Rupert Croft-Cooke, with kind regards from Evelyn Waugh Christmas 1950". A fine copy, the buckram exceptionally bright and clean. Internally fresh, with small marks to the endpapers but pages unopened.
Rupert Croft-Cooke, author and playwright, who also wrote crime novels under the pseudonym of Leo Bruce, wrote a favourable review of Scoop in 1938. In 1948 Waugh agreed to make a contribution to an anthology of travel writing Croft-Cooke was editing. There is little evidence that the pair corresponded much beyond that, but relations must have been cordial enough 1950 for Waugh to send this as a Christmas present, though not, it would seem, for Croft-Cooke to read it.
Rarely encountered now in such fine condition.
Stock ID: 35574
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