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

London, Chapman and Hall, 1947. First edition. Cloth. Bright first book form 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 a part of the Habsburg Empire which is in the tale a 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 lovely with only minor shelf wear, titles to spine lightly darkened. Dust wrapper unclipped with minor shelf wear, minor closed tear to rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.