Scoop
by Waugh, Evelyn
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little Brown, 1938. First American edition. Hard cover. Published Boston: Little Brown, 1938, first printing. 8vo., yellow cloth with red titles, top edge tinted red. Hospital lending library copy with rubber stamp on flyleaf and half title, pocket removal on rear endpaper, tape residue on covers. Pages clean and bright, binding very good. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket. 8vo.
Synopsis
In SCOOP , a "newspaper adventure," Evelyn Waugh tells the tale of garden coulumnist William Boot gets sent to Ishmaelia to cover a war, finds everything but a war, and returns as a golden child of British media. Altogether a fine, ascerbic, British satire on the print media in the 1930's.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009773
- Title
- Scoop
- Author
- Waugh, Evelyn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Little Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions;
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About the Seller
The Wild Muse
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Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
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