Scoop a Novel About Journalists

Chapman and Hall Ltd. London. 1938. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.5 x 5.1 inches). A bright, clean copy. Finely bound in recent full dark red morocco, spine with five raised bands, gilt. Compartments with gilt lettering and decorative centre pieces. Single ruled gilt ruled border to boards. Top edge gilt. A fine copy.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1938. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo. First impression, 'First published in 1938' on copyright page. Original 'snakeskin' cloth, gilt title to the spine. Spine slightly lean, small wear to spine ends, dedication on endpaper. Else nice and clean copy. .

Chapman and Hall Ltd. London. 1938. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.1 inches). First state of the text with the incomplete number 8 in the publication date to the verso of the title page and the s present on the last word of page 88. A bright and clean copy in the red and black snakeskin design cloth with gilt… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall. 1938. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original snakeskin effect cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine, in the first state dustwrapper. A superb fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without foxing, inscriptions or stamps. Publisher's postcard loosely… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1938.. First edition. 8vo. (viii), 308, (2) pp. Publisher's snakeskin patterned cloth, second issue dust jacket, not price clipped. Dampstaining and some fading to the jacket which also shows edge wear with losses, a few small adhesions to the cloth from the verso of the jacket, a little discolouration to the endpapers, the contents… Read more about this item

London: Penguin, 2019. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Recent Octavo Paperback. Larger Format 318 pp. Fine condition. No inscriptions.

London, Chapman & Hall, 1938. . First edition, first issue in second state dust jacket; 8vo; strictly contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, stock a little toned as often, with 's' in 'as' in last line of p88; publisher's black and red patterned boards, with the original dust jacket, without the 'Daily Beast' logo; a very good… Read more about this item

London: Chapman & Hall, 1938. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, publisher's red and black marble-patterned cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Scoop is a humorous novel in which Waugh satirizes foreign correspondence and sensational journalism. Specifically, it tells the story of William Boot, an inexperienced journalist and author of a nature column for The Beast. This real life… Read more about this item

London, Chapman and Hall, 1938. . First edition; 8vo; occasional very faint spotting to margins, light offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's black and red patterned boards, gilt lettering to spine, spine slightly sunned, with the original first state pictorial dustjacket with wraparound band, band lightly browned at spine, front panel of jacket lightly creased at head with… Read more about this item

Little Brown & Co. First American Edition. 1938. Cloth. 321p. A quite good, solid copy with some light soiling to the spine and top edge slight discoloration to the front cover. No dust jacket. A very presentable copy. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1938.

London: Penguin, 2019. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Recent Octavo Paperback. Larger Format 318 pp. Fine condition. No inscriptions.

London, Chapman & Hall, 1933.. [viii]+308pp. 8vo. Original red & black mottled cloth. Pale off-setting to endpapers. Mild spotting on top edge. Bookplate on front pastedown and that owner's name on flyleaf. All else very good.. First edition. 'Colonial edition' stamp on verso of title page. First state edition with "as" as the last word on p.88

Chapman and Hall, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Stamped 'Colonial Editon' fainly on copyright page. No dustwrapper.

The Folio Society. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. Red cloth boards, gilt embossed illustration to cover, gilt titling to spine. Solid binding, light shelf wear. Spine sunned. No slipcase. ; 8.50 X 5.50 X 0.75 inches; 229 pages .

Chapman and Hall, London., 1938. First edition. First state, with ''as'' as the last word on page 88 and with the number 8 indistinct in the publication date. Octavo. pp.[viii], 308, [1] advert. Bookplate (designed by Robert Gibbings for the Book Society) on front pastedown (under the dustwrapper flap). Just a few small spots to fore-edge. Fine in very… Read more about this item