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Ces corps vils

1947140 x 195 mm

ORIGINAL FRENCH EDITION
ONE OF 170 EXEMPLIES ON ALFA MOUSSE, the only large paper edition.

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ORIGINAL FRENCH EDITIONtranslated by Louis Chantemèle.

ONE OF 170 EXEMPLIES ON ALFA MOUSSE, the only large paper edition.

This is one of the works for which Waugh is best known, as much for its ferocious, satirical style as for the scandalous story it tells of English youth between the wars. This second novel by the author, whose original title Bright Young Things, too cliché, was changed to Viles Bodies, had a major influence on young people in England, not least David Bowie, who cites the book as the main source of his song Aladdin Sane.

A charming copy by Bernard Bichon in a psychedelic English binding in purple ostrich leather with bright pink suede endpapers.

 

Paris,La Table Ronde,1947. Bound,140 x 195 mm,245 pp.

Modern binding by Bernard Bichon. Full purple buff, smooth spine, pink title, bright pink suede lining and endpapers, pink half morocco slipcase, purple title.

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Evelyn Waugh

(born in London on 28 October 1903, died in Taunton, Somerset on 10 April 1966)

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