Mad World : Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead

HarperPress, London, 2009. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Preface and acknowledgements sources, list of illustrations and index. Dark blue coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with two, of eight pages each, of colour and black-and-white photography and illustrations. Dark blue coloured boards with metallic light blue coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper with black, blue and white coloured titles to the front panel and white and metallic light blue coloured titles to the back strip. Colour photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. A biography of the English writer Evelyn Waugh, who, far from being a snob and misanthrope, was " ... as loving and complex as the family (The Lygons of Madresfield) that inspired him." – from front fold over panel blurb. Minor rubbing of the book corners and back strip corners. Age toning of the text block edges and pages. A little creasing of the dustwrapper edges and rubbing of the panels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 367, [3] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Britain; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 0007243766. ISBN/EAN: 9780007243761. Inventory No: 0290489. . 9780007243761