Tactical Exercise by Waugh, Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition with statement to copyright page. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front endpaper, "For the Chapel at the Old Rectory, Frumley / From / Evelyn Waugh / Nov 13th, 1954". Book is very good plus with some signs of use and age, bookplate to front paste-down, previous owner name to half title, previous bookseller notes in pencil to paste-down. Jacket is about very good minus, wear to edges, especially at spine ends, price clipped, some damp-staining. A rare title signed. Octavo, green cloth, 289 pages, pictorial cloth. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box. Inscribed by Author(s).

First edition, inscribed by the author; 8vo; bookplate to front free endpaper, else internally fine; publisher's teal cloth, gilt lettering to spine, extremities faintly rubbed, upper edge and spine sunned, with the original unclipped dust-jacket, the faintest of abrasions at head of spine, else fine, housed in modern teal cloth clamshell box. Presentation copy of this first edition of short stories, for which there is no British equivalent, inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, 'For Frankie / with love from / Evelyn / Christmas 1954'.