Evelyn Waugh — Scoop: A Novel About Journalists

London, Chapman & Hall, Ltd. 1933 . First edition. Cloth. An uncommon, first edition of this entertaining and humorous novel about journalism, by Evelyn Waugh. First edition, in the publisher's original patterned cloth binding. A satire of sensationalist journalism from foreign correspondents, following a young William Boot, loosely based on Waugh's fellow reporter at the Daily Mail, William Deedes. Boot lives in genteel poverty, contributes to the Daily Beast, a national daily newspaper, and is strong-armed into becoming a foreign correspondent when the editors mistake him for fashionable novelist John Courteney Boot. Written by Evelyn Waugh, an English novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist, and book reviewer known for his early satires Decline and Fall, and A Handful of Dust. In the publisher's original patterned cloth binding. Externally, smart, with light bumping and light rubbing to the extremities. One or two small tears to the cloth at the head and tail of the spine and to the front joint. Spine is a touch faded. The odd light mark to cloth. Light age toning to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .