Beschreibung
First edition. With the full "as" to page 88. In what appears to be an advance or trial dust jacket, with no price or advertising, differing quite considerably from the published version. Significant differences include: the lettering to the spine, with 'Scoop' appearing horizontally in white, corresponding to the gilt lettering on the book beneath and leaving a large blank middle orange section; the layout of Waugh's blurb to the front panel, with no caption beneath the photograph; the photograph is of higher resolution; there is no orange bar above the 'Daily Beast' masthead and the orange border around the blurb is more ragged. The jacket is bibliographically interesting and should help quell debate around the priority of the published dust jackets, reducing the need to rely upon the plausible but unsubstantiated theory that Lord Beaverbrook threatened legal action and caused the 'Daily Beast' masthead to be removed. The simpler theory is that the 'Daily Beast' masthead detracts attention from 'Scoop', which is after all the title of the book, and was removed for this reason. The existence of this advance jacket would indicate that a number of significant stylistic changes were made, the masthead initially left in place, probably too many printed to be discarded, then the decision to also remove the masthead was taken and the remaining jackets without the masthead printed, with all being released to the public simultaneously. The book is firmly bound, the boards are clean, with light rubbing and bumping to the corners and spine ends. The text block is slightly toned and dusty with minor marks, there are two bookplates to the front endpaper, one the armorial bookplate of bibliophile, Christopher Freville Huntley, the other smaller and without adornment of an unidentified Frederick Woods. The dust jacket had survived the decades by being quite significantly reinforced top and bottom with Sellotape, it has now been professionally conserved to help it survive the decades to come, with no attempt at prettification, there are quite large areas of loss to all panels other than the flaps, as well as rubbing, creasing and burn marks from the tape. There are no readily locatable references to the existence of other examples of the jacket in this advance state, so this conceivably may be the sole survivor. Quite a nice copy of the book, in an unprepossessing but potentially bibliographically important dust jacket.
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