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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM W. APPLETON
WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966). Decline and Fall. An Illustrated Novelette. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1928.
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WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966). Decline and Fall. An Illustrated Novelette. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1928.
8°. Frontispiece and plates by Waugh. (Some light spotting.) Original red and black "marbled" cloth (spine leaned); pictorial dust jacket (spine panel and extremities soiled, a few short chips or tears to spine ends or corners).
FIRST EDITION. After the book was rejected for indecency by the publisher of his earlier biography of Rossetti, Waugh offered the manuscript to Chapman & Hall, but he did so while his father, who was the managing director of the firm, was away on holiday. The acting-director agreed to publish the novel. Arthur Waugh returned to London to discover that his son was his firm's newest author. When Arthur Waugh's biography was published three years later, however, Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, the two novels published under his directorship of Chapman & Hall, were not mentioned. The indelicate material, which Martin Stannard has since revealed in fact did go through some "taming" revisions, was perhaps a bit too much for the elder Waugh. Connolly, The Modern Movement 58.
8°. Frontispiece and plates by Waugh. (Some light spotting.) Original red and black "marbled" cloth (spine leaned); pictorial dust jacket (spine panel and extremities soiled, a few short chips or tears to spine ends or corners).
FIRST EDITION. After the book was rejected for indecency by the publisher of his earlier biography of Rossetti, Waugh offered the manuscript to Chapman & Hall, but he did so while his father, who was the managing director of the firm, was away on holiday. The acting-director agreed to publish the novel. Arthur Waugh returned to London to discover that his son was his firm's newest author. When Arthur Waugh's biography was published three years later, however, Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, the two novels published under his directorship of Chapman & Hall, were not mentioned. The indelicate material, which Martin Stannard has since revealed in fact did go through some "taming" revisions, was perhaps a bit too much for the elder Waugh. Connolly, The Modern Movement 58.