1947 Decline and Fall & Vile Bodies

Description

Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The Chapman & Hall, Uniform Edition.

Bound in the publisher's cloth, with the unclipped dust wrappers.

Written by English novelist and travel writer, Evelyn Waugh, who was best known for his famous works 'A Handful of Dust', 'Brideshead Revisited', and 'Decline and Fall'.

Originally published in 1928, 'Decline and Fall' was Waugh's first published novel, and tells the story of Paul Pennyfeather following his expulsion from Oxford. With six full-page monochrome illustrations. Collated, complete. 

Published two years later, 'Vile Bodies' is a satirical novel surrounding the bright young things, or the wealthy new generation living it up in London following the First World War.