Author: WAUGH, EVELYN (BOYLE, STUART - ILLUSTRATOR)
Title: The Loved One - an Anglo-American Tragedy
Description: Chapman & Hall. 1948, 1st Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. 144 pages (complete). Wonderfully illustrated by Stuart Boyle. This copy has the original first edition dustjacket. A waspish, cruel, very funny satire on the funeral business, British ex-pats in Hollywood and the film industry. Dedicated, enthusiastically, to Nancy Mitford (whose own sister, Jessica, went on to write her own book about Death in America). The dustjacket is worn and a little torn. The spine is marked and sunned. The dj is nonetheless, healthy. The cover is neat and tidy. The pages are clean, clear, very sure and assured. fk. Good/Poor.

Keywords: JPG~


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