Waugh, Evelyn

8vo, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 500 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY WAUGH ("Frank | from | Evelyn | Christmas 1942") on front free endpaper, half-title, original red cloth title in gilt on spine, DUST-JACKET, collector's pictorial morocco folding box, with a portrait of the author smoking a pipe on the upper side, some spotting, slightly soiled dust-jacket worn at edges with some loss to head and foot of spine, spine of jacket darkened

INSCRIBED TO FRANK PAKENHAM, LATER LORD LONGFORD (1905-2001). Frank and his wife Elizabeth were friends of Waugh, although Waugh regarded Pakenham's literary ambitions with undisguised disdain: he recorded in his diary for 1952 that, after seeing a manuscript of Pakenham's autobiography, "I said I wasn't shocked at a politician writing like that, but at a don's" (The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976), p.704).