Scoop.

WAUGH, Evelyn.

$1,100.00

Item Number: 147547

London: Chapman & Hall, 1933.

First edition of Waugh’s classic satire of sensationalist journalism. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. An exceptional presentation.

Partly based on Waugh's experience working for the Daily Mail when he was sent to cover Benito Mussolini's expected invasion of Abyssinia, Waugh's fifth published novel, Scoop, conveys the story of a young man who contributes nature articles to a national daily newspaper. Christopher Hitchens, introducing the 2000 Penguin Classics edition of Scoop, said "[i]n the pages of Scoop we encounter Waugh at the mid-season point of his perfect pitch; youthful and limber and light as a feather" and noted: "The manners and mores of the press, are the recurrent motif of the book and the chief reason for its enduring magic...this world of callousness and vulgarity and philistinism...Scoop endures because it is a novel of pitiless realism; the mirror of satire held up to catch the Caliban of the press corps, as no other narrative has ever done save Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's The Front Page." Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Novels of the twentieth century.