The Loved One Published in Horizon - A Review of Literature and Art, Edited

by Cyril Connoly by Evelyn Waugh

$45 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Horizon, 1948. FIRST APPEARANCE - predates the first edition in book form. Octavo 21 x 14cm , pp.60. Publisher's card covers, decoratively printed in black and orange, advertisements as issued. One small stain to foot of upper else fine. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short novel about the excesses of a Californian funeral business. ... a thoroughly horrible and fiendishly entertaining book... Rarely in fiction

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