![]() ![]() ![]() Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Through a series of accidents and mistaken identity, Boot is hired as a. Scoop is a comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s and the story of William Boot, a innocent hick from the country who writes careful essays about the habits of the badger. ![]() The pages are companionable, creamy, clean, clear, comfortable, certain. Evelyn Waugh was one of literature's great curmudgeons and a scathingly funny satirist. On the copyright page note that the '8' of 1938 is raised and is often confused as a '3'. The front pastedown has an ex-libris plate designed by the extraordinary Robert Giddings. The bad cover has some splash marks from storage. This copy's cover has some wear about the edges and head and foot of the spine. Mrs Stitch was vibrantly based on Diana Cooper (who indeed read and wrote all of her letters in bed her driving was eccentric and wild until the day she gave up in her eighties her loathing of taxi-drivers was impeccable). The hapless journalist was based on William Deedes (later a legendary Fleet Street editor himself his barely repressed curiosity remained until his last days as did his taste for Scotch). ![]() Scoop is, of course, Waugh's first real comedy novel. The last word on page 88 is "as" - this indicates that this copy is a TRUE FIRST edition and FIRST IMPRESSION. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh BBC RADIO DRAMA - Hapless journalist William Boot is mistakenly sent to report on a war in Africa, where he finds love and ends up in. ![]()
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