Waugh, Evelyn

8vo, WAUGH'S UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED ON ALMOST EVERY PAGE BY THE AUTHOR in blue and red ink, original pale green wrappers stamped "PROOF COPY"; [together with]: Unconditional Surrender. Chapman & Hall, 1956, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO GRAHAM GREENE ("For Graham | with love from | Evelyn | Something to read in Addis | Ababa | 1961") on front free endpaper, original blue cloth, top edge blue, DUST-JACKET; together in collector's folding red morocco box decorated with morocco onlays (2)

Graham Greene, presentation inscription and bookplate; Roger Rechler; his sale, Christie's New York, 11 October 2002, lot 324

TWO EXCEPTIONAL COPIES OF WAUGH'S FINAL NOVEL IN THE ACCLAIMED 'SWORD OF HONOUR' TRILOGY.

Waugh's extensive emendations and alterations to the proof copy were all reflected in the published first edition, including an additional paragraph to be inserted on the penultimate page, written out by Waugh on the final page of the proof, and the renaming of Jack Spruce (the editor of a war-time magazine with a distinct resemblance to Cyril Connolly) to 'Everard' in blue ink throughout.

Greene and Waugh swapped presentation copies of their published writing throughout their lives (see lots 202 and 205), and this copy of Waugh's fifteenth published novel bears Greene's bookplate alongside Waugh's inscription.