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Pictorial title-page in red and black. First Edition. 8vo. [193 x 125 x 33 mm]. x, 252, [2]. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in maroon morocco, the covers with a gilt fillet border and a descending line of green, terracotta, black and red geometrical onlays, outlined in blind and interspersed with small gilt tools. The spine divided into six panels by raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third and dated at the foot, the others with coloured onlays and blind and gilt tooling, the turn-ins tooled with a gilt fillet, Japanese wave patterned endleaves, top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. [ebc7886].

Vile Bodies is a novel by Evelyn Waugh that satirizes the decadent lifestyles of the 'Bright Young Things' in 1920s London. Full of wit and humor, it paints a vivid picture of a society obsessed with fashion, parties, and scandal.