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Click to view full description | 1. | Waugh, Evelyn A LITTLE LEARNING - AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY THE EARLY YEARS
Boston Little Brown & Co. 1964 First American Edition Hardcover Very Good- in Very Good dustjacket
Book is clean and tight, dustjacket is toned and edgeworn with chipping at head of spine.
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| 2. | Waugh, Evelyn HELENA
Boston Little, Brown 1950 First American Edition Hardcover Fine in Very Good dustjacket
8vo; Dust jacket has small chip at rear head of spine.
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| 3. | Waugh, Evelyn OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN
Boston Little, Brown 1955 First American Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket
8vo; The second of the three books in Waugh's "Sword of Honour" trilogy, which has been called "the finest British novels to have come out of World War II." Much of the book was based on the author's own war-time service in North Africa and Yugoslavia. White areas in image are glare from mylar, NOT DJ damage.
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| 4. | Waugh, Evelyn THE LOVED ONE - An Anglo-American Tragedy
Boston Little, Brown 1948 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket
8vo; Published June, 1948. Lavender cloth binding - Near Fine in UNclipped dustjacket with some wear at lower edge of rear panel and upper edge of interior front flap. Captures the essence of of Waugh's black humour. This satire lampoons the mortuary business in Southern California with additional jabs at capitalism, sex, religion, Hollywood, and other sacred cows. This excellent novel was the basis for the truly sublime movie directed by Tony Richardson with Jonathan Winters (as Wilbur and Harry Glenworthy), Rod Steiger, Robert Morse, and Anjanette Comer with Liberace as a coffin salesman, Allyene Gibbons as Mr. Joyboy's 800 pound mother, Sir John Gielgud and Robert Morley. With cameo appearances by James Coburn, Milton Berle, Tab Hunter, Dana Andrews, Roddy McDowall, and Margaret Leighton. All are entangled in the operations of Whispering Glades cemetery and its affiliated pet cemetery, the Happier Hunting Grounds. Frankly, my favorite comedy of all time.
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| 5. | Waugh, Evelyn THE LOVED ONE, An Anglo-American tragedy
Boston Little Brown 1948 Hardcover Fine in Very Good dustjacket
164 pages; Eighteenth printing. In Hollywood, at Whispering Glades, a full-service funeral home for departed greats, the mononymonous Mr. Joyboy and Aimee Thanatogenos fall in love...with each other and their work. He is chief embalmer, she a crematorium cosmetician. They spend their days contentedly prepping the loved ones for a final appearance. Into this idyllic scene comes Denis Barlow, aspiring poet and funerary colleague. But Denis is downscale, his employer the Happier Hunting Ground, a pet cemetery. Denis looks to Aimee for professional reconstruction, falls in love with her instead, and sets up a triangle that is literally more than Aimee can bear. "A fiendishly entertaining book -- Evelyn Waugh has never written more brilliantly. Devilishly, impishly amusing." (The New York Times)
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| 6. | Waugh, Evelyn THE ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD
Boston Little, Brown 1957 First American Edition Hardcover Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket
8vo; An autobiographical novel of the "A Brief bout with hallucination" - depression and a nervous breakdown provoke a sea voyage peppered with various humorous incidents. A lovely bright, square book in nice dustjacket with some rubbing at head and tail of spine and four tiny closed tears at lower edge. Now in protective mylar jacket. Former owner's name on ffep -- Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat and eventually served with her husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984).
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