(Grant RIchards) Waugh, Alec — My First Publisher

Fine Issued without dust jacket. First Edition 0 Undated twelve-page typewritten manuscript with one holograph emendation and Waugh's signature on the final page. Alec Waugh recalls the rather dashing personality of Grant Richards: "He restored and sustained an author's confidence. If your books were issued under his aegis, everything must, you felt, come right in the long run. He was always buoyant, always encouraging." Grant Richards published Waugh's first novel, The Loom of Youth, which he had accepted in 1917