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Scoop: A Novel About Journalists
Evelyn Waugh
1933
Chapman & Hall : London
7.5" by 5"
308pp.
SUMMARY
A smart first edition of this entertaining and humorous novel about journalists by Evelyn Waugh.
First Edition,Original Binding,Publishers Original Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs0.75 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
US Postage:£ 19.99
EU Postage: £ 15.99
European Postage: £ 16.99
Asia Postage: £ 21.99
Worldwide Postage: £ 25.99
DESCRIPTION
First edition.
A satire of sensationalist journalist from foreign correspondents, following a young William Boot, loosely based on Waughs fellow reporter at the Daily Mail, William Deedes.
Boot lives in genteel poverty, contributes to the Daily Beast, a national daily newspaper, and is strongarmed into becoming a foreign correspondent when the editors mistake him for a fashionable novelist John Courteney Boot.
Written by Evelyn Waugh, an English novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist, and book reviewer known for his early satires Decline and Fall, and A Handful of Dust.
From the library of the son of Joyce Gill, a life-long friend of Evelyn Waugh. Joyce and Evelyn had a passionate affair during the annulment of Evelyn’s first marriage to ‘She-Evelyn’. The pair were introduced sometime around Christmas in 1923 at a nightclub in Fitzrovia, their affair seeming to come to a head in the summer of 1935, when Evelyn invited Joyce to leave her husband and join him on his travels to Abyssinia.
CONDITION
In the original patterned cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Residue from stickers to the tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Light age toning to the endpapers.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine- Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed- Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good- Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good- Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under condition
Good Only- Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair- As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor- Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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