A Tourist in Africa

London: Chapman & Hall, 1960. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Good. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated. A smart first edition of this illustrated travel journal from Evelyn Waugh, with the original price clipped dust wrapper. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and nine plates. Collated complete. Waugh's final travel book, describing a tour of East African in early 1959. With commentary on the journey from Port Said, through Mombasa, Zanzibar, Tanganyika, a safari, and to Rhodesia. Written by Evelyn Waugh, an English novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist, and book reviewer known for his early satires Decline and Fall, and A Handful of Dust. 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. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with light shelf wear and chipping to the extremities. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine. Sunning to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Very Good Indeed