Evelyn Waugh — Robbery Under Law: The Mexican Object-Lesson
London, Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1939. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this travel work by Evelyn Waugh, covering Mexico under Lázaro Cárdenas in the late 1930s. The first edition of the work.Lacking the original dust wrapper. A smart copy of this travel work by noted author, Evelyn Waugh. Covering the nationalistion of the petrol industry and the persecution of Catholicism in Mexico in the early twentieth century. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with slight rubbing to the extremities. Slight fading to spine. Bumping to head and tail of the spine. Slight offsetting to boards and endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with marginal age toning, due to paper used. The odd spot to the fore edge. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
