A Handful of Dust

Author: WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966)
Title: A Handful of Dust
Publication: London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1934

Description: [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.348; [4], advertisements. Publisher's comb-patterned cloth with titles in gilt to spine. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Gentle spine lean, cloth a little frayed at joints. Very good. Waugh's fourth novel, a subtle critique of civilisation alternating between an English country house and British Guyana.

Listed in Time Magazine's 100 Best Modern Novels.

Seller ID: 68353

Subject: Literature



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