PORTRAIT OF A CELIBATE
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; 247 pages; VG/VG; spine beige with black text and brown decoration; dust jacket protected with mylar; price unclipped reading "net, $2.50", mild shelfwear to dust jacket, including small closed and open tears along the top and bottom edges, a small closed tear on the rear hinge, and a small missing section at the head of the spine; textblock clean with black top edge dye and deckled fore edge; shelved Case 2.
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Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $135
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"Alexander Raban Waugh (8 July 1898 – 3 September 1981) was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh, uncle of Auberon Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher. His first wife was Barbara Jacobs (daughter of the writer William Wymark Jacobs), his second wife was Joan Chirnside and his third wife was Virginia Sorenson, author of the Newbery Medal–winning Miracles on Maple Hill." [Wikipedia]