£6,000
EVELYN WAUGH'S FIRST BOOK: WAUGH (Evelyn): 'P.R.B: Essay on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 1847-1854': London, Alastair Graham, 1926: FIRST EDITION, 1 of 50 copies, with extensive 16 line inscription from writer John Heygate to Henry Williamson on FFE beginning: 'not having a book of my own to give my old friend, Henry Williamson, on the occasion of his first visit...': publishers cloth backed boards, spine gilt lettered, some light wear and marking, contained within old brown envelope addressed to Williamson in Heygate's hand, black wax seal to verso. A dedication copy of Waugh's first book, inscribed from the man who stole the author's first wife at a party given by Anthony Powell and Constance Lambert in 1929. (1)
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