WAUGH (EVELEYN) Helena. A Novel, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "For Alan [Pryce-Jones], a belated christening present from Evelyn" on the front free endpaper, printed on hand-made paper, half-title, light spotting on free endpapers, uncut in publisher's white buckram, gilt lettering on spine, light fingering marks [Davis Checklist A25], large 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1950 ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND FOR PRESENTATION BY THE AUTHOR: A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY of the work he "believed to be by far his own best book" (Christopher Sykes, Evelyn Waugh. A Biography, 1975). This copy was inscribed for Waugh's fellow author, the literary critic Alan Pryce-Jones. In a the review that Pryce-Jones wrote for Waugh's Put Out More Flags "he spoke for quite a number of readers when he wondered, 'Doesn't Mr. Waugh overdo it a little?' Waugh then referred to 'the man Jones,' until Alan converted to Catholicism and was rewarded with an inscribed copy of Helena" (David Pryce-Jones, "The Pen is Mightier", in The New Criterion, March 2013). Provenance: Alan Pryce-Jones (1908–2000), presentation inscription from the author; by descent to the present owner.