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London: The Reprint Society, 1948. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a good if slightly edge-torn and dust-dulled dust wrappper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xi, 314 pages: port; 19 cm. Notes: Condensation of the author's four books written between 1929 and 1935: Labels, Remote people, Ninety-two days, and Waugh in Abyssinia. Reprint of the 1946 ed. published by Duckworth, London. Subjects: Waugh, Evelyn 1903-1966 Travel. Waugh, Evelyn 1903-1966 Journeys. Authors, English 20th century; Biography. Authors, English Biography 20th century. Travel Literature. English Literature. Criticism. Genre: Illustrated.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1951. Penguin Edition. Softcover. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 326 pages. Subjects: Waugh, Evelyn 1903-1966 Travel. 20th century fiction. 20th century fiction writers. Penguin classics.

London: Duckworth, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Very Good+. First Impression of this omnibus edition, collecting Waugh's best travel dispatches. Demy 8vo (216 x 135mm): 318pp, with color portrait frontispiece of Waugh aged 26 by Henry Lamb and folding map of British Guiana tipped in facing p. 196. Publisher's canary yellow cloth lettered in dark blue, illustrated dust priced 15/-. Near Fine or better (spine ends crimped, dust-soiled edges); Very Good or better jacket (tape remnants along reverse edges). Davis XX. During the 1930s, Waugh traveled widely in Europe, Africa, and South America. In 1930, he attended the coronation of the Haile Selassie in Abyssinia, returning there five years later as a correspondent for the Daily Mail to cover the Italian invasion from a pro-Mussolini standpoint. Between these visits, his sojourns in South America included an arduous trek from British Guiana into Brazil. Throughout this time he had no permanent base in England, staying in hotels and at friends'… Leer más