The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh - 1948

Chapman and Hall, London, 1948
Illustrated by Stuart Boyle. 1948, 1st edition, third impression.
Signed 1st edition third imp.

Signed on the half-title page.

Original blue cloth boards with very good non-price clipped dust jacket, that has no foxing. Published by Chapman and Hall in 1948, Same year as 1st printing. This is the first trade edition, third printing, delightfully illustrated by Stuart Boyle.
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

The jacket is partially edge browned, now plastic protected. The blank page before half-title page has a neatly written name covered by an ex-libris plate.

Outside the windows the cars swept past continuously, out of town, into town, lights ablaze, radios at full throttle. I wither slowly in thine arms, he read. Here at the quiet limit of the world, and repeated to himself: Here at the quiet limit of the world. Here at the quiet limit of the world as a monk will repeat a simple pregnant text, over and over again in prayer. ― Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One Mr. Schultz, you're jealous of whispering Glades. And why wouldn't I be seeing all that dough going on relations they've hated all their lives, while the pets who've loved them and stood by them , never asked no questions, never complained, rich or poor, sickness or health, get buried anyhow like animals? ― Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One