The Loved One [signed limited edition]

London: Chapman and Hall, 1948. First edition. 144 pp. Green buckram, spine lettered in gilt, no dust jacket as issued. Top edge gilt. Spine slightly faded, slight offsetting to front endpapers, else fine. One of 250 numbered copies of the large paper edition, signed by Waugh and the illustrator Stuart Boyle. Inscribed by Waugh as “Major G. Gordon’s copy.” Many of these copies were inscribed by Waugh directly to individuals; it’s unclear who Major Gordon was, but there is a character of the same name in Waugh’s story “Compassion,” initially published as “The Major Intervenes" in The Atlantic, July 1949, and expanded and republished as “Compassion” in The Month, August 1949.