waugh fielding (5 Ergebnisse)

Unknown. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hard back binding in publisher's original raspberry cloth effect covered boards, gilt back, Chartreuse end papers. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Known as the 'Queen of Cooks', her culinary skills were highly prized by Edward VII, with whom she was rumoured to have had an affair in the 1890s. She was also called 'The Duchess of Jermyn Street.' It is said that some of the scenes in Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh were inspired by the Cavendish Hotel under Lewis' management, in which she appears as her fictional counterpart Lottie Crump. Contains colour frontispiece, 208 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing to the corners and spine ends, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

First edition of this classic novella. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Daphne with love from Evelyn Christmas 1947." The recipient, Daphne Fielding was a fellow British author and dedicatee of Evelyn Waugh's The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold and a close friend of his. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by John Piper. This is "the story of a summer holiday, a light tale." Scott-King is a middle-aged English schoolmaster, "an adult, an intellectual, a classical scholar, almost a poet" - slightly bald and slightly corpulent. After twenty-one years as classical master at Granchester he has become a school institution, "old Scottie," given to precise lamentations on the subject of modern decadence. He found his special subject for study in the works of the obscure poet, Bellorius, who had died three centuries, before that is in 1646, in Neutralia, then a happy kingdom of the Habsburg Empire but now a totalitarian state in modern Europe. Scott-King wrote an essay to commemorate the approaching tercentenary of Bellorius's death, and the publication of this essay in a learned journal brought Scott-King an invitation from the Neutralian Government to take part, along with distinguished scholars from all over the world, in the tercentenary celebration. He accepted and, in the company of a professor of Roman Law and a columnist, Miss Bombaum, was flown to Neutralia and plunged at once into the nightmare of totalitarian hospitality and into the life of Modern Europe.

First editions of each volume in the author's acclaimed Sword of Honour Trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of Officers and Gentlemen, "For Darling Daphne, Beloved Bigamist, from Evelyn." The recipient, Daphne Fielding (1904â"1997) was a British socialite and writer whose memoirs and biographical works offered a vivid portrait of aristocratic life in the early twentieth century. Born Daphne Vivian, daughter of the 4th Baron Vivian, she married Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath, and became Marchioness of Bath before their divorce in 1953. Fielding was closely connected to the "Bright Young Things"â"a group of bohemian aristocrats and artists whose flamboyant lifestyles captured public imagination in interwar Britainâ"and maintained friendships with many prominent literary figures, including Evelyn Waugh. Waugh, who shared her interest in the idiosyncrasies of upper-class life, dedicated his 1957 novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold to Fielding and her best-known works included The Nearest Way Home (1970), a memoir of her unconventional upbringing, and The Duchess of Jermyn Street (1978), a biography of her mother-in-law, Daisy Fellowes. With wit, candor, and an insiderâs perspective, Fielding documented a vanishing world of privilege, eccentricity, and decline within the British upper classes. Each volume is near fine to fine in a near fine dust jacket. Officers and Gentleman is price-clipped. From the library of Daphne Fielding. A wonderful association. The Sword of Honour trilogy of novels about World War II, is largely based on the author's own experiences as an army officer and some critics ague the crowning achievement Waugh's career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war too much for him. "Sword of Honour was the climax of [Waugh's] career as a novelist . . . Here in his final work there run together the two styles, of mischief and gravity, that can be noted in his writing from the beginning . . . He may justifiably have thought of it as crowning his work" (Frank Kermode). Waugh received the 1952 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Men at Arms. The trilogy is considered by many critics to be the finest novel series of the Second World War.

First edition. Two-page Preface by Evelyn Waugh. Octavo. 208 pages. Illustrated. Laid in is a bill from the Cavendish Hotel from October 1952, made out to a Mr Isaacson for a stay of seven nights and for the grand sum of £9/7/4. A pencilled note identifies Mr Isaacson as ''[Robert] Isaacson - early-ish romantic interest of the poet James Merrill''.Head and tail of spine a bit bumped. Very good in very good dustwrapper rubbed at the edges and a bit darkened at the spine.