WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-66). Scoop, London, 1939, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket (torn at corners with some loss). FIRST EDITION, in the dust-jacket without the 'Daily Beast' masthead.

WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-66).  Scoop. A Novel about Journalists. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1938. 8vo (186 x 125mm). Half title, one-page publisher's advertisement at the end. Original red and black patterned cloth, dust-jacket with price of 7s.6d. unclipped (the jacket torn at corners with loss, a few other tears without loss, edges rubbed and creased, lower turn in adhering to cloth at edge, some light staining). FIRST EDITION, with the raised '8' in the publication date on the verso of the title and 'as' in the last line of p.88, and in the dust-jacket without the 'Daily Beast' masthead. According to some sources, Lord Beaverbrook insisted on the removal of the masthead in early printings of the jacket since its gothic-style font was similar to that of 'The Daily Express', a newspaper which was clearly a target of Waugh's satire. Another version - less intriguing, but perhaps more plausible - was that the masthead was removed simply because it detracted from the prominence of the book's title on the wrapper. See Hartley Moorhouse's article 'Bibliographical Confusion Surrounding the First U.K. Edition of Scoop' in Evelyn Waugh Studies (Vol. 52, no. 3, Winter 2021) for a detailed, but not altogether conclusive, discussion of 'states' and 'issue points' relating to the book and its jacket.