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WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966), editor. 'THE CYNIC', a magazine edited jointly by Evelyn Waugh and Derek Hooper, for distribution at Heath Mount School, the complete series of five issues, vol. I, nos. 1-5, 21 January, 8 February, 7 March, 5 May and Septe...

Auction 24.06.1992
24.06.1992
Schätzpreis
2.000 £ - 3.000 £
ca. 3.705 $ - 5.558 $
Zuschlagspreis:
2.420 £
ca. 4.484 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 386

WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966), editor. 'THE CYNIC', a magazine edited jointly by Evelyn Waugh and Derek Hooper, for distribution at Heath Mount School, the complete series of five issues, vol. I, nos. 1-5, 21 January, 8 February, 7 March, 5 May and Septe...

Auction 24.06.1992
24.06.1992
Schätzpreis
2.000 £ - 3.000 £
ca. 3.705 $ - 5.558 $
Zuschlagspreis:
2.420 £
ca. 4.484 $
Beschreibung:

WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966), editor. 'THE CYNIC', a magazine edited jointly by Evelyn Waugh and Derek Hooper, for distribution at Heath Mount School, the complete series of five issues, vol. I, nos. 1-5, 21 January, 8 February, 7 March, 5 May and September 1916, each of 8 typewritten pages on 8 leaves, 210 x 165mm., mimeographed, the second issue with a duplicated illustration mounted, the fifth with an ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR DRAWING signed 'E. WAUGH', entitled 'Quentin Durward Illustrated. Louis dines with Burgundy. Arrival of news from Liege' (77 x 98mm.) mounted on verso of first leaf, a few leaves slightly spotted, original brown paper wrappers, title slip pasted on front wrapper, nos. 3-5 with label 'Passed by Imperial Censor' (used as seal and torn), small 4to. The Cynic , subtitled 'Cynical without being cheaply so. Piquant in moderation. Racy in Excess', is the product of Waugh's last year at Heath Mount School in Hampstead. He entered the school in September 1910, and as he wrote in A Little Learning 'gladly remained for the next six years'. He recalled deprecatingly that he 'edited a school magazine called The Cynic , which my father's secretary typed and multiplied for us. It was flippant rather than cynical; the few jokes that are now intelligible seem very feeble'. It was in fact devised as an alternative to the official school magazine, and in an unpublished diary entry at the time he wrote 'By George when the term begins things will hum.....Our first shell to smash the ramparts of convention is The Cynic , the most gorgeous paper out'. In his opening editorial Waugh makes 'helpful' criticisms of the masters' efforts in the rival publication and predicts with cheeky condescension that 'when they have had a little more experience [they] will be able to produce quite a presentable little paper'. In the diary he also observed that Mr Hinchcliffe, his form master, had forbidden The Cynic to be sold but 'of course we have already sold out (at threepence each)'. Each of the five issues contains contributions by Waugh, including editorials, verses in 'Poets Corner or Our Doggerel Depot', an 'Ode to Sixayitis', 'To a Latin Prose' (at the expense of his Latin master), and in the September number, 'Slipper Meets Boy'. Jokes hardly comprehensible to outsiders poke fun at masters and fellow pupils, the latter including Cecil Beaton (whom both Waugh and Hooper particularly disliked) who is billed in the opening issue as a forthcoming attraction, 'Beaton will give his refined Entertainment introducing 'I'm Gilbert the Filbert''. A brief playlet is published in May, 'Sufficient unto the day or The Importance of being Lazy', in which a character called 'Swotfond' plays a leading role. The editorial in No. 5 offers with each issue 'a magnificent free original plate' either by Waugh himself or by Hooper, 'with signature'. The small watercolour drawing of Quentin Durward recalls as well as Waugh's early enthusiasm for mediaeval history, that he could draw before he could write. The Cynic , comical, juvenile and yet already giving evidence of the impulses directing Waugh towards a literary career, is a reminder of a period of his youth in which he was apparently happy and gregarious. At Heath Mount he raised a patrol of Boy Scouts, worked as a War Office messenger in his summer holidays, collected 'war relics', declared his intention of being a parson and by his own account made friends easily. A number of entries in his diaries from 1916-1921 refer to his co-editor on The Cynic Derek Hooper (on 29 December 1919 'Dear old Hooper turned up in the afternoon and I went off to tea with him'). On leaving school, Hooper joined the Chinese Customs Service, and he and Waugh then lost touch. As far as we know, the only other complete set of the five issues of The Cynic is in the Evelyn Waugh Collection at the Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas. (5)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 386
Auktion:
Datum:
24.06.1992
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966), editor. 'THE CYNIC', a magazine edited jointly by Evelyn Waugh and Derek Hooper, for distribution at Heath Mount School, the complete series of five issues, vol. I, nos. 1-5, 21 January, 8 February, 7 March, 5 May and September 1916, each of 8 typewritten pages on 8 leaves, 210 x 165mm., mimeographed, the second issue with a duplicated illustration mounted, the fifth with an ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR DRAWING signed 'E. WAUGH', entitled 'Quentin Durward Illustrated. Louis dines with Burgundy. Arrival of news from Liege' (77 x 98mm.) mounted on verso of first leaf, a few leaves slightly spotted, original brown paper wrappers, title slip pasted on front wrapper, nos. 3-5 with label 'Passed by Imperial Censor' (used as seal and torn), small 4to. The Cynic , subtitled 'Cynical without being cheaply so. Piquant in moderation. Racy in Excess', is the product of Waugh's last year at Heath Mount School in Hampstead. He entered the school in September 1910, and as he wrote in A Little Learning 'gladly remained for the next six years'. He recalled deprecatingly that he 'edited a school magazine called The Cynic , which my father's secretary typed and multiplied for us. It was flippant rather than cynical; the few jokes that are now intelligible seem very feeble'. It was in fact devised as an alternative to the official school magazine, and in an unpublished diary entry at the time he wrote 'By George when the term begins things will hum.....Our first shell to smash the ramparts of convention is The Cynic , the most gorgeous paper out'. In his opening editorial Waugh makes 'helpful' criticisms of the masters' efforts in the rival publication and predicts with cheeky condescension that 'when they have had a little more experience [they] will be able to produce quite a presentable little paper'. In the diary he also observed that Mr Hinchcliffe, his form master, had forbidden The Cynic to be sold but 'of course we have already sold out (at threepence each)'. Each of the five issues contains contributions by Waugh, including editorials, verses in 'Poets Corner or Our Doggerel Depot', an 'Ode to Sixayitis', 'To a Latin Prose' (at the expense of his Latin master), and in the September number, 'Slipper Meets Boy'. Jokes hardly comprehensible to outsiders poke fun at masters and fellow pupils, the latter including Cecil Beaton (whom both Waugh and Hooper particularly disliked) who is billed in the opening issue as a forthcoming attraction, 'Beaton will give his refined Entertainment introducing 'I'm Gilbert the Filbert''. A brief playlet is published in May, 'Sufficient unto the day or The Importance of being Lazy', in which a character called 'Swotfond' plays a leading role. The editorial in No. 5 offers with each issue 'a magnificent free original plate' either by Waugh himself or by Hooper, 'with signature'. The small watercolour drawing of Quentin Durward recalls as well as Waugh's early enthusiasm for mediaeval history, that he could draw before he could write. The Cynic , comical, juvenile and yet already giving evidence of the impulses directing Waugh towards a literary career, is a reminder of a period of his youth in which he was apparently happy and gregarious. At Heath Mount he raised a patrol of Boy Scouts, worked as a War Office messenger in his summer holidays, collected 'war relics', declared his intention of being a parson and by his own account made friends easily. A number of entries in his diaries from 1916-1921 refer to his co-editor on The Cynic Derek Hooper (on 29 December 1919 'Dear old Hooper turned up in the afternoon and I went off to tea with him'). On leaving school, Hooper joined the Chinese Customs Service, and he and Waugh then lost touch. As far as we know, the only other complete set of the five issues of The Cynic is in the Evelyn Waugh Collection at the Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas. (5)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 386
Auktion:
Datum:
24.06.1992
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
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