Decline and Fall.
Evelyn Waugh's First Published Novel Decline and Fall; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
Decline and Fall.
WAUGH, Evelyn.
$800.00
Item Number: 147545
London: Chapman & Hall, 1931.
Pocket edition of Waugh’s first published novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, illustrated, 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.
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.
