Rossetti. His Life and Works.

first edition, association copy, of Waugh's first commercially published work. Inscribed by the author's father: 'John L. Bale / From his friend and colleague / Arthur Waugh / Father to the author, and — perhaps — the first inspirer of his critical flight / April:xix:1928.' Bale was an editor at Chapman and Hall, where Arthur Waugh had been a director.

Rare in the dust jacket - our Modern Literature specialist has handled just two other copies in the last thirty years.