"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C. S. Lewis
London: Chapman and Hall, 1965. [Military saga] PROOF COPY of the First Edition. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.796. Publisher's textured cream wrappers, with printed text to upper. A few very light marks to covers; fine. A scarce advance proof of the streamlined version of the acclaimed trilogy, edited by the author to be read as one story; this first collected and first single volume edition of Waugh's classic trilogy comprises the final texts of all three original novels. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the best ninety-nine novels in English published since 1939. Item #66083
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