Decline and Fall.
Evelyn Waugh's First Published Novel Decline and Fall; Elaborately Bound in Full Crushed Green Morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
Decline and Fall.
WAUGH, Evelyn.
$1,250.00
Item Number: 129591
London: Chapman & Hall, 1962.
First revised edition of Waugh’s first published novel. Octavo, bound in full crushed green morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Waugh's first published novel, Decline and Fall is based, in part, on Waugh's schooldays at Lancing College, undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford, and his experience as a teacher at Arnold House in north Wales. A social satire, it employs Waugh's characteristic black humor in lampooning various features of British society in the 1920s.
