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1953 Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future
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Description
First Edition, With Dustwrapper
The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper.
Bookplate to the front paste down.
This intriguing work is one of Evelyn Waugh's post-war novels, in which he shows contempt for the concept of a 'welfare state'. In this satire, set in a dystopian Britain, the protagonist works in a state-run euthanasia centre and falls in love. Illustrated by the author.
From the library of the son of Joyce Gill, a life-long friend of Evelyn Waugh. Joyce and Evelyn had a passionate affair during the annulment of Evelyn’s first marriage to ‘She-Evelyn’. The pair were introduced sometime around Christmas in 1923 at a nightclub in Fitzrovia, their affair seeming to come to a head in the summer of 1935, when Evelyn invited Joyce to leave her husband and join him on his travels to Abyssinia.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is bright and smart except for faint marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd spot to the fore edge, affecting the occasional page. Dust wrapper is a little chipped to the head of the spine, with a small closed tear to the front of the wrap and the odd spot to front and rear of the wrap.
Very Good
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