Evelyn Waugh – Black Mischief – First Edition 1932 – SIGNED by the Author with wrap-around band
£7,500.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘Black Mischief’ published by Chapman and Hall in 1932. A very good/near fine copy with frontispiece-map (pp.303), original patterned ‘Snakeskin’ cloth, with spine lettered in gilt. A little fading to the spine and a little nicked at the head. Some rubbing – SIGNED by the Author to the endpaper ‘With Best Wishes From/ Evelyn’. In the near fine unclipped wrapper with only a little browning to the spine. Some rubbing and browning to the spine and a little loss to the corners. Accompanied by the rare Book Society ‘Book of the Month For October’ wrap-around band. The trade edition is much rarer to find signed than the limited edition. Scarce to find with these attributes.
A sharp, comic satire about politics, modernisation, and imperial absurdity. Set in the fictional African state of Azania, it follows the well-meaning but chaotic Emperor Seth as he tries to westernise his country, helped by the dubious Englishman Basil Seal. Waugh uses farce, cruelty, and brilliant exaggeration to expose vanity, incompetence, and cultural arrogance, making the novel funny, unsettling, and deliberately outrageous all at once
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A first edition, first printing of ‘Black Mischief’ published by Chapman and Hall in 1932. A very good/near fine copy with frontispiece-map (pp.303), original patterned ‘Snakeskin’ cloth, with spine lettered in gilt. A little fading to the spine and a little nicked at the head. Some rubbing – SIGNED by the Author to the endpaper ‘With Best Wishes From/ Evelyn’. In the near fine unclipped wrapper with only a little browning to the spine. Some rubbing and browning to the spine and a little loss to the corners. Accompanied by the rare Book Society ‘Book of the Month For October’ wrap-around band. The trade edition is much rarer to find signed than the limited edition. Scarce to find with these attributes.
A sharp, comic satire about politics, modernisation, and imperial absurdity. Set in the fictional African state of Azania, it follows the well-meaning but chaotic Emperor Seth as he tries to westernise his country, helped by the dubious Englishman Basil Seal. Waugh uses farce, cruelty, and brilliant exaggeration to expose vanity, incompetence, and cultural arrogance, making the novel funny, unsettling, and deliberately outrageous all at once
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