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WAUGH, Evelyn. A Little Learning. The First Volume of an Autobiography. London: Chapman & hall, 1964.
8o. Photographic frontispiece. Original grey cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; printed dust jacket. Provenance: Father Martin D'Arcy (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WAUGH TO FR. MARTIN D'ARCY on the front free endpaper: "For Fr. Martin D'Arcy with affectionate regards from Evelyn Waugh Sept. 1964." Waugh met Father D'Arcy on 8 July 1930, recording his impressions in his diary on that day: "Blue chin and fine, slippery mind." He and Waugh talked at length as Waugh redied himself for his conversion to Catholicism. D'Arcy expressed some mystification at Waugh's matter of fact attititude towards conversion (Carpenter, p.222).
This is the only published volume of a work which Waugh projected would run to three. Waugh died eighteen months after publication. Davis et al, XXXVII.
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FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WAUGH TO FR. MARTIN D'ARCY on the front free endpaper: "For Fr. Martin D'Arcy with affectionate regards from Evelyn Waugh Sept. 1964." Waugh met Father D'Arcy on 8 July 1930, recording his impressions in his diary on that day: "Blue chin and fine, slippery mind." He and Waugh talked at length as Waugh redied himself for his conversion to Catholicism. D'Arcy expressed some mystification at Waugh's matter of fact attititude towards conversion (Carpenter, p.222).
This is the only published volume of a work which Waugh projected would run to three. Waugh died eighteen months after publication. Davis et al, XXXVII.