# Is "Scott-King's Modern Europe" by Evelyn Waugh a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of Scott-King's Modern Europe by Evelyn Waugh (Chapman & Hall, 1947) is identified by: First printing in cloth with dust jacket, roughly 88 pages with colour frontispiece; novella, subtitled 'A Sojourn in Neutralia'. London Chapman & Hall is the true first book edition (1947).

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- First printing in cloth with dust jacket, roughly 88 pages with colour frontispiece; novella, subtitled 'A Sojourn in Neutralia'
- Note the text first appeared in abridged form in Cornhill Magazine in 1947 before the Chapman & Hall book
- Publisher imprint reads Chapman & Hall
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| Publisher | Chapman & Hall |
| Year | 1947 |
| True first | US edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | First printing in cloth with dust jacket, roughly 88 pages with colour frontispiece; novella, subtitled 'A Sojourn in Neutralia' |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
First printing in cloth with dust jacket, roughly 88 pages with colour frontispiece; novella, subtitled 'A Sojourn in Neutralia'. Note the text first appeared in abridged form in Cornhill Magazine in 1947 before the Chapman & Hall book.

## Is this the true first?
London Chapman & Hall is the true first book edition (1947). US Little, Brown followed in 1949.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
No book-club issue.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *Scott-King's Modern Europe* by Evelyn Waugh a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/scott-kings-modern-europe
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.