![]() Auchincloss's Wall Street office contained "a handsome glass cabinet displayed not law books but first editions - the complete Edith Wharton, the first poems of Emily Dickinson, an early novel of Evelyn Waugh, a mint copy of Swann's Way" - it is possible that this is the copy referenced (Gelderman, p. 110), and compared him to Lieutenant Padfield in Unconditional Surrender (1961): he is "very much like what I conceive my character 'the Loot' to be" (26 February 1961, Letters, p. It is hard to believe they are the work of a beginner" (quoted in Gelderman, p. He praised Auchincloss's early literary endeavours: "the conception of every story is stunningly mature and most skilfully achieved. Waugh was an admirer of Auchincloss, who made a name for himself as a chronicler of Manhattan's old-money elite. Waugh and Auchincloss were both acerbic critics of the high society that was their subject matter and milieux: this title, a social satire "written in bile" (McDonnell), is apt to unite them. ![]() ![]() First edition, first impression, in the scarce jacket, this an excellent association copy, from the library of Waugh's friend Louis Auchincloss, with his bookplate and blindstamp on the front free endpaper. ![]()
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