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ORIGINAL FRENCH EDITIONtranslated from English by Georges Philippe Brabant.
ONE OF 60 NUMBERED COPIES ON ESPARTOThis is the only paperback edition.

Satire of the phoney war, published in English under the title Put Out More Flags (1942), Waugh's sixth novel reintroduces certain people from Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies and Black Mischief.  Hoist the Grand Pavois represents, according to L. E. Sissman, a turning point in the English novelist's style: "Waugh somehow fuses the savage, deadly comedy of his earlier books with the ominous seriousness of his later ones".

A fine, uncommon copy.