Tactical Exercise

Waugh (Evelyn).   Boston,    [1954] First Edition of this collection     Extremities bumped, otherwise a very nice copy in slightly frayed and soiled dust-wrapper; bookplate  There is no exact English equivalent of this collection of twelve stories and novellas. The book comprises the first American publication of Love Among the Ruins, the first collection in a book entirely by Waugh of the title story and of his juvenile (1910) work The Curse of the Horse Race, together with nine stories (including the title stories) from Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing and Work Suspended and other stories 

Price: £100