Author: WAUGH, EVELYN.
Title: Decline and Fall. (Greatest Books of the 20th Century).
Description: Limited Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. [xii], 262; moire silk endpapers, frontispiece portrait, six full page text illustrations by the author, bound in original brown full leather, raised bands, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt stamped decoration to boards and spine, all edges gilt, silk page marker, fine copy. Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library; 1979. This was the authors first published novel, based in part on Waugh's schooldays at Lancing College and undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford and his experience as a teacher in North Wales. Social satire and black humour used to lampoon various features of British society in the 1920's.
Keywords: english literature
Title: Decline and Fall. (Greatest Books of the 20th Century).
Description: Limited Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. [xii], 262; moire silk endpapers, frontispiece portrait, six full page text illustrations by the author, bound in original brown full leather, raised bands, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt stamped decoration to boards and spine, all edges gilt, silk page marker, fine copy. Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library; 1979. This was the authors first published novel, based in part on Waugh's schooldays at Lancing College and undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford and his experience as a teacher in North Wales. Social satire and black humour used to lampoon various features of British society in the 1920's.
Keywords: english literature
Price: AUD 75.00 = appr. US$ 51.89 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 121678
- Book number: 121678