Scoop. A Novel About Journalists -
Evelyn Waugh
1938 - Chapman & Hall Ltd., London - First Edition First State
First edition of the essential journalist’s novel, with William Boot being hired by the Daily Beast to cover unfolding, or not, events in Ishmaelia.
‘Based on Waugh’s own experiences in Abyssinia in 1936, where he was writing for the Daily Mail, the novel is a brilliantly comic satire of Fleet Street ethics and manners, and on the battle for readership between the Beast and the Brute.’ – Oxford Companion to English Literature. First edition and first state with the ‘s’ in ‘as’ on the last line of page 88 (the second state was without the ‘s’ in ‘as’).
Reference: Oxford Companion to English Literature, 905.
Octavo (book size 19.3x13.2cm), pp. [8] 308 [1 (publisher’s ad)] [3]. In publisher’s red and black snakeskin-patterned cloth, spine lettered in gilt, all edges trimmed. Condition: Fine in near fine covers with a hint of toning and rubbing to the spine. Ref: 112388 Price: HK$ 2,000
‘Based on Waugh’s own experiences in Abyssinia in 1936, where he was writing for the Daily Mail, the novel is a brilliantly comic satire of Fleet Street ethics and manners, and on the battle for readership between the Beast and the Brute.’ – Oxford Companion to English Literature. First edition and first state with the ‘s’ in ‘as’ on the last line of page 88 (the second state was without the ‘s’ in ‘as’).
Reference: Oxford Companion to English Literature, 905.
Octavo (book size 19.3x13.2cm), pp. [8] 308 [1 (publisher’s ad)] [3]. In publisher’s red and black snakeskin-patterned cloth, spine lettered in gilt, all edges trimmed. Condition: Fine in near fine covers with a hint of toning and rubbing to the spine. Ref: 112388 Price: HK$ 2,000