Notably, Scoop is based on Waugh's own experiences working as a journalist for the British Daily Mail during Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia. Ironically, Boot's naïveté allows him to get the real "scoop" not reported by more experienced journalists. Boot is mistakenly identified as his novelist cousin and sent to the fictional East African country of Ishmaelia to cover its socialist insurrection. This real life reporter was identified as Lord Deeds. Specifically, it tells the story of William Boot, an inexperienced journalist and author of a nature column for The Beast. Scoop is a humorous novel in which Waugh satirizes foreign correspondence and sensational journalism. A very good copy, spine with a slight lean and lightly toned, a touch of rubbing to extremities. Publisher's red and black marble-patterned cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. First edition, first issue, with the "8" in the publication date indistinct, and the "s" present in "as" to the last line of p.
Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. The pages are companionable, creamy, clean, clear, comfortable, certain. On the copyright page note that the '8' of 1938 is raised and is often confused as a '3'. The front pastedown has an ex-libris plate designed by the extraordinary Robert Giddings.
The bad cover has some splash marks from storage. This copy's cover has some wear about the edges and head and foot of the spine. Mrs Stitch was vibrantly based on Diana Cooper (who indeed read and wrote all of her letters in bed her driving was eccentric and wild until the day she gave up in her eighties her loathing of taxi-drivers was impeccable). The hapless journalist was based on William Deedes (later a legendary Fleet Street editor himself his barely repressed curiosity remained until his last days as did his taste for Scotch). Scoop is, of course, Waugh's first real comedy novel. The last word on page 88 is "as" - this indicates that this copy is a TRUE FIRST edition and FIRST IMPRESSION.
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