My brother Evelyn, and other profiles / Alec Waugh
1967, First Edition. London : Cassell. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Edges lightly foxed. Remains well-preserved overall. Provenance: bookplate of H.W.M. Brewer. Item #452499
Physical description; x, 340 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm. Contents; Part 1. 1. Cousin Edmund -- Sir Edmund Gosse. -- 2. Authors at Underhill -- E. Temple Thurston, Desmond Coke, Ernest Rhys. -- 3. My first publisher -- Grant Richards. -- 4. Frank Swinnerton's Nocturne. -- 5. The soldier poets -- Robert Nichols, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Richard Aldington. -- 6. The University of Mainz -- Hugh Kingsmill, Gerard Hopkins, Milton Hayes, J.F. Holms. -- 8. Ralph Straus. -- 8. W.L. George. -- 9. The bad boy in the Georgian nursery -- Gilbert Cannan, W.W. Jacobs. -- 10. The nail in the coffin -- Hugh Walpole. -- 11. Two poet cricketers -- Clifford Bax, J.C. Squire. -- 12. My brother Evelyn. Part 2. 13. Arthur Waugh's last years. -- 14. My second war. -- 15. The lawyer -- E.S.P. Haynes. -- 16. Son of Oscar Wilde -- Vyvyan Holland. -- 17. Michael Arlen in retirement. -- 18. W.S.M. : R.I.P. -- 19. The Macdowell colony. -- 20. Self-portrait, nearing sixty. -- 21. Island in the sun. Subjects; Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966). Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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