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WAUGH**, AUBERON - with an Introduction by Craig Brown: : CLOSING THE CIRCLE: The Best of Way of the World - From The Daily Telegraph

LONDON.MACMILLAN,2001.

ISBN 9780333907825.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,pale cream background with a b/w thumbnail author portrait caricature vignette by William Rushton,illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with brown+black lettering,rear panel with critics' reviews; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.A couple of tiny indents to front panel of dw/dj but without penetration but with light marking to concomitant spot to boards beneath.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a dark blue+red striped headband and immaculate plain maroon endpapers. Retailer's bar-coded security tag/label in situ,to rear pastedown's lower corner.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-ixpp+3-389pp [paginated] includes an introduction by Craig Brown (satirist,author and Waugh's successor on Way of the World),266 columns/contributions (19/May,1990 - 16/Dec, 2000 - from The Daily Telegraph); plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and individual Year's separator pages. 'Closing the Circle' is a collection, elected by Harry Mount,of the very best of 'Way of the World',Auberon Waugh's deliciously funny and acutely observed column in the 'Daily Telegraph'.In it Waugh,who died in January 2001,muses on subjects of national importance and discusses more parochial happenings near his Somerset home.How should he,as President,Chairman and only known member of Vespa,the Venerable Society for the Protection of Adulterers,react to the news that scientists have produced a device that can trace the exact location of errant husbands? And what can he do to ensure the church fete's underwater baby-racing competition takes place despite safety warnings from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents? Certain threads run through his columns - the battle against draconian drink-driving laws,the beneficial effects on children of smoking,the efforts to enshrine the memory of Fred Hill,who died while in Pentonville Prison,jailed for refusing to wear a motorcycle helmet.There are a few triumphs - Waugh allows himself some pleasure when it is revealed that,as he had been saying for years,hamburgers and margarine are bad for you.But it is not all serious campaigns.Waugh welcomes the advent of alcopop - 'The blackcurrant-flavoured version was pretty poor stuff,but the lemon-flavoured one was delicious' - and celebrates the prospect of a trouserless statue of General de Gaulle in London,a smallish white whale being buried on the Mount of Olives in Robert Maxwell's place and UNPROFPR adopting the McDonald's logo as the badge for its tunics. This handsome volume is a fitting epitaph to one of our greatest - and much missed - post-war journalists. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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