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  • First American Edition of Helena; Inscribed by Evelyn Waugh to Fellow Novelist Jim Powers

    WAUGH, Evelyn.

    Helena.

    Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950.

    First American edition of what the author always described as his best work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to friend, fellow Catholic and novelist J.F. Powers on the front free endpaper, "For Jim Powers with warm regards from Evelyn Waugh." Jim Powers was a novelist and short-story writer who often drew his inspiration from developments in the Catholic Church, and was known for his studies of Catholic priests in the Midwest. Writing about Powers's first collection of stories, "Prince of Darkness," Evelyn Waugh said that he "is almost unique in his country as a lay writer…

    Price: $2,500.00     Item Number: 2807

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