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Waugh, Evelyn Sword of Honour
Boston Little, Brown & Company 1961 First Edition
Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Red boards. The spine is stamped in gilt; the front board in blind. 796pps. Stated First American Edition. There is dustspotting atop the textblock and and a couple of faint soilmarks to the fore-edge. Also, the front hinge is cracked with the webbing (unaffected) showing top to bottom; there are no other flaws or separations in the binding, which is stable with all pages intact. The text is clean and bright: no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has quite shallow chipping at the tips and the spine-ends as well as a couple of creases at the bottom of the front panel. The original price is intact. This omnibus is the final version of the novels: 'Men At Arms' (1952), 'Officers And Gentlemen' (1955), and 'The End of The Battle' (1962).
"...The three books of which this is a recension, appeared at intervals throughout a decade with the less than candid assurance (dictated by commercial interest) that each was to be regarded as a separate, independent work. It was unreasonable to expect the reader to keep in mind the various characters; still more to follow a continuous, continued plot. Repetitions and discrepancies occured, which, I hope, are here excised. I have also removed passages which, on re-reading, appeared tedious.
The product is intended (as it was originally) to be read as a single story. I sought to give a description of the Second World War as it was seen and experienced by a single, uncharacteristic Englishman, and to show its effects on him. For this purpose I invented three clowns who have prominent parts in the structure of this story, but not in its theme..." -- From the author's Preface.
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74.90 USD
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