Scoop

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1938.

First American Edition. Publisher's sandy yellow cloth with author name and title printed in red, cursive lettering across front front board and spine. With the colourful dust-jacket designed by Harry Beckhoff, not price-clipped, faded at spine and chipped at ends of spine. Text clean and fresh without inscriptions or any other markings. Voted number 60 in the Guardian's 100 Best Novels, 'Scoop' was based on Waugh's experiences in Ethiopia, during the Abyssinian crisis of 1935-36, that provided the raw material for a wicked romp through the more absurd byways of Fleet Street in the 1930.