Lot 662
Waugh, Evelyn
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
Scoop: a novel about journalists. London: Chapman & Hall, 1938. First edition, 8vo., publisher's black and red patterned boards, dustwrapper, second issue of the dustwrapper without "The Daily Beast" heading on the front panel, and with the "s" in "as" on last line of p. 88, edges of wrapper chipped; [and] Deeds, W.F., Baron . At war with Waugh: the true story of Scoop. London: Macmillan, 2003. First edition, 8vo., publisher's cloth, dustwrappers, signed by Deeds on the titlepage [2]
Footnote
Note: Loosely inserted in Scoop is the signature of Baron Deeds (Bill Deeds), who, according to many sources, if not Deeds himself, was the journalist used by Waugh as the model and inspiration for the hapless William Boot his protagonist in the novel. While Deeds has always denied his association with Scoop's boot, he, nevertheless, in At war with Waugh acknowledges some similarities.