1963 Basil Seal Rides Again, or, The Rake's Regress

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper

A limited edition work, a U.S. limitation of 1,000 copies, of which this is numbered 735.

Signed by Waugh to the limitation page.

In the original glassine wrap.

An entertaining long short story by Evelyn Waugh, the revival of the protagonist of 'Black Mischief' and 'Put Out More Flags'.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece.

Evelyn Waugh was one of the most popular authors of the twentieth century. His other novels include 'Decline and Fall', and 'A Handful of Dust'.

Illustrated by Kathleen Hale.

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.