Upper-class rogues, bohemians, dowagers, socialites, bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever, in this hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war' The hideous, then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies when the war broke out? Put Out More Flags shows them adjusting to the changing social pattern of the times. Some of them play a valorous part; others, like the scapegrace Basil Sea, ...
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Upper-class rogues, bohemians, dowagers, socialites, bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever, in this hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war' The hideous, then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies when the war broke out? Put Out More Flags shows them adjusting to the changing social pattern of the times. Some of them play a valorous part; others, like the scapegrace Basil Sea, disclose their incorrigible habit of self-preservation in all circumstances. Basil's contribution to the war effort involves the use of his peculiar talents in such spheres of opportunity as the Ministry of Information and an obscure section of Military Security - adventures which incite Evelyn Waugh to another pungent satire upon the coteries of Mayfair.
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Book club edn. 8vo. Original black lettered red cloth (casing a little shaken-otherwise VG), dustwrapper (poor-partial loss at head and tail of spine and upper cover and worn and creased-in protective cover). Pp. 255 (prelims lightly spotted with biro price mark and previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper; no inscriptions).
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Very Good. 1st Printing. First Edition/First Printing Published by Chapman & Hall, London 1942. VG clean and tight condition. Owner's details and date to ffep. Browning/Spotting to endpages. Clean and bright Grey speckled cloth covers. Slight darkening to spine.
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Reader copy. Ex library hardback with DJ (officially withdrawn); usual stamps/markings. Light shelf wear to boards & foxing to head edge otherwise a good, clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 15H*
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Used-Good. Good paperback. Reprint, 1951. Penguin Fiction 423. Owner's name on first page. Pages a little yellowed; spine faded & browned, with small repair at head. Very, very faint smoky odour.
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Used-Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) 1st edition, 2nd impression. Owner's name date 1942 on front free end paper; binding tight; oatmeal cloth a little foxed.
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Fair. 1943. The Book Club. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Red boards. White titles. Slight edgewear. Boards marked. Spine damaged. Spine sunned. End page foxing. Some foxing throughout. Page edges foxed. 7 x 5.
