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WAUGH, Evelyn.

Waugh in Abyssinia.

Waugh in Abyssinia.

Stock Code 110683

London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1936

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First edition, with the printed overslip on the front flap of the dustjacket correcting the blurb that the author had originally objected to. Copies in the preliminary state exist if a tiny handful of examples.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; internally fine; publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, red topstain bright, minor bumping to spine ends, with the original pictorial dust-jacket by John French, minor creasing to bottom edge of lower panel, tiny nicks to head and foot of spine, else near-fine.

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