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Scoop BY Evelyn WAUGH

Creator: Evelyn WAUGH
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
WAUGH, Evelyn.

Scoop.
A Novel About Journalists.

Stock Code 110531
London, Chapman and Hall, 1938

Current price$13,039.00
There are two states of the first impression dust jacket for Scoop. The first state, seen here, shows the tromp l'oiel newspaper image with the partial banner 'aily Beas' in the style and typeface of the Daily Express. Beaverbrook (himself lampooned in the novel as Lord Copper) cited the mast head in his proposed action against Waugh and Chapman & Hall who restruck the jackets with the masthead entirely blank. However, they left the devastating descriptions of 'Lord Copper' intact. And they got away with it!

First edition; 8vo; occasional very faint spotting to margins, light offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's black and red patterned boards, gilt lettering to spine, spine slightly sunned, with the original first state pictorial dustjacket with wraparound band, band lightly browned at spine, front panel of jacket lightly creased at head with associated tiny nicks and short tear, some light soiling with spine darkened, housed in modern red quarter morocco clamshell box.

More Information

Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Period:	1920-1949
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Modern
Dealer Reference #:	110531
Incollect Reference #:	737112

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