When the Going was Good.
"I never aspired to being a great traveller. I was simply a young man, typical of my age; we travelled as a matter of course.": Evelyn Waugh's When the Going was Good
When the Going was Good.
WAUGH, Evelyn.
$200.00
Item Number: 145356
London: Duckworth, 1947.
First edition, early edition of this compilation snippets from the author’s travel books: ‘Labels,’ ‘Remote People,’ ‘Ninety-two Days,’ and ‘Waugh in Abyssinia.’ Octavo, original navy blue boards, frontispiece of Evelyn Waugh Aged 26 by Henry Lamb, illustrated with a folding map of British Guiana and part of Brazil. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
"The more fantastic his predicaments, the more bizarre his encounters, the better Mr. Waugh describes them. ... The going is extremely good" (Peter Fleming in 'The Spectator').
