BAGGAGE TO THE ENEMY

First edition, first printing. Evelyn Waugh's copy. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with line drawings by the author throughout. A very good copy, the binding firm with some bumping at the spine tips and corners, the cloth a little marked and darkened. The contents, with the ownership inscription of Evelyn Waugh to the front endpaper and some toning to the page edges are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the supplied very good first printing dustwrapper that is a little rubbed and nicked, with small chips at the head of the somewhat faded spine. Not price-clipped (5s net to the front flap).

Inscribed in blue ink on the front endpaper "Evelyn Waugh / Ardrossan / June 1942". An autobiographical volume of the war artist's experiences with the ill-fated British Expeditionary Force in France, 1940. At the time of his ownership inscription, Evelyn Waugh was stationed in the Ayrshire seaside town of Ardrossan while on secondment from the Marines to the Royal Horse Guards. He was an intelligence officer at Brigade HQ.