The Loved One. An Anglo-American Tragedy

London: Chapman & Hall, 1948.

First Edition, first printing. Original royal blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket showing first state price of 7s 6d at foot of front flap. Marbled endpapers, top edge of the pages blue. With seven full-page sepia woodcuts by Stuart Boyle, as well as decorative initials. No old inscriptions, owner names, etc. A fine copy. Waugh's satirical take on American society, the British ex-pat community and the film industry.