A LITTLE LEARNING; An Autobiography by Evelyn Waugh / The Early Years / With Illustrations
Boston Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, 1964. First American Edition. Boards. 8vo, light yellow pebble-grain boards with red lettering on spine, Mylar-proteted lettered dust jacket (unclipped), photographic frontispiece of the young author c.1913 & c. 1923 and 11 other photographic illustrations, top edge died red for dust protection by publisher, [xiv] + 234 pages. Fine / Fine. Item #2112
SUPERIOR COPY: clean, bright, tight, and square. An unclipped complete dust jacket whose only flaws are a couple of very small smudges.
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (1903 – 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies and travel books. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer of books. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–61). Waugh is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.--Wikipedia.
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