Waugh, Evelyn.

8vo (187 x 118mm.), first edition, first issue, presentation copy inscribed by the author's brother Alec ("Miss Fordred | from, | Alec Waugh"), frontispiece and 5 full-page illustrations by the author, original red and black patterned boards, original pictorial dust jacket, folder and morocco-backed slipcase, spine slightly rubbed, backstrip of jacket slightly faded and rubbed at extremities

Alec Waugh, presentation inscription

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First edition of the author's first novel, the first issue with "Martin Gaythorn-Brodie" and "Kevin Saunderson" on pages 168 and 169 respectively.

Alec Waugh (1898-1981) - the elder brother of his more famous sibling Evelyn - was educated at Sherborne School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Alec left Sherborne under a cloud at the age of seventeen, the episode providing the basis for his infamous novel The Loom of Youth which appeared two years later, which dealt frankly with the issue of homosexuality in English public schools. His brother Evelyn was subsequently sent to Lancing College instead.