Circular Saws
Chapman & Hall, 1923.
First edition. Original black cloth with title label to the spine, in pictorial dustwrapper designed by Evelyn Waugh. A fine copy in a very good dustwrapper with wear to the spine ends and corners and a closed tear with minor loss to the joints.
Whilst at Oxford, Waugh considered himself more an artist than a writer and contributed a number of caricatures to the university papers, Cherwell and Isis and to Harold Acton's short-lived literary magazine, The Oxford Broom. He would also be commissioned by his father, a director of Chapman & Hall, to submit designs for dustwrappers for their authors. Wolfe's book is a collection of whimsical tales which are framed as a series of short stories featuring figures drawn from diverse fairy-tale inspirations. Each story unfolds with humour and irony, reflecting the absurdities of life through clever narratives and whimsical portrayals, and Waugh's montage of images on the dustwrapper perfectly reflects the fanciful playfulness of the tales.
Stock ID: 35588
