Scott-King's Modern Europe.

First edition of this classic novella. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Daphne with love from Evelyn Christmas 1947." The recipient, Daphne Fielding was a fellow British author and dedicatee of Evelyn Waugh's The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold and a close friend of his. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by John Piper.