Evelyn Waugh — Scott-King&Apos;S Modern Europe

London, Chapman and Hall, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this novella by famous author Evelyn Waugh, complete with the unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this novella by the noted author Evelyn Waugh. Published for the first time in an abridged form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1947, same year as the publication in book form. First thus.Following Mr Scott-King, a middle-aged school master, who has found his affinity in an obscure seventeenth century poet, Bellorius, who dimly lived in that part of the Habsburg Empire which is now totalitarian state of Neutralia. The Neutralian invite Scott-King to take part in the Bellorius tercentenary celebrations, and so the protagonist is plunged into the nightmare of totalitarian hospitality and into the life of Modern Europe. A smart copy in its unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, bumped to head and tail of spine, back strip darkened. Dust wrapper unclipped and smart with shelf wear, sunned to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.