Comedies: Decline And Fall, Vile Bodies, Black Mischief, Scoop, A Handful Of Dust & Put Out More Flags [6 Volume Boxed Set]. Waugh, Evelyn.

FIRST THUS. Octavo, pp xxvii, [3], 214; [10], 209; [8], 213; [10], 225; [10], 223; [12], 216. Illustrated 7 colour plates to each volume. Bound in publisher's pictorial cloth with gilt titles to spines, coloured endpapers. Housed in brown paper-covered slipcase lettered in gilt. Cloth impeccably clean and unfaded, contents clean, square and bright. A hint of rippling and slightly mottled to top panel of slipcase, with a small closed 1cm tear to bottom corner. A fine set in a very good slipcase. Handsome set of the collected comedy novels by Waugh; vividly embellished with 42 specially commissioned illustrations by John Hodder. Heavyweight, so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.