WAUGH, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust. London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., September 1934. First edition, 8vo

WAUGH, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust. London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., September 1934. First edition, 8vo (184 x 114mm.) Frontispiece, 3pp. advertisements to rear. (Toning, minor spotting to preliminaries.) Original snakeskin patterned cloth (slight spine lean), dust-jacket (some loss to top of spine panel with lettering affected, spine browned, closed tear to upper panel over ‘H’ of ‘Handful’). Note: rare in the dust-jacket. Waugh’s masterpiece, arguably. Provenance: Henry Martin (ink name on the initial blank with the date ‘Sept 4th 1934’.