Description
FIRST TRADE EDITION, 8vo, pp. 77, [1]. Two pages printed in colour. Original printed cream boards. A touch of spotting, endpapers foxed. Boards marked and spotted. Ink inscription ‘HMS Flamingo’ to front flyleaf.
Wine in Peace and War. With decorations by Rex Whistler.
- London: Saccone & Speed Limited 1947
£65
Notes
Waugh was commissioned by London wine merchants Saccone & Speed to write this account of their trade, being paid in champagne. This copy appears to have been in the library of a Royal Navy sloop.
