Published by the Folio Society, London, 2000. 
 
The book is in very good condition, bound in orange cloth covered boards with a red flaming heart design and gilt titling to the spine. There is some minor staining to the spine and covers. Otherwise, this copy is bright, tight, white and square. The book sits within its red slipcase, which has some shelfwear. This edition has the benefit of full colour reproductions of satirical plates by renowned illustrator Beryl Cook.
 
This edition is celebrates Waugh's short satirical novel about the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry. The Loved One was written as a result of Evelyn Waugh's trip to Hollywood in February and March 1947. MGM was interested in adapting Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited (1945). Waugh had written that, "I should not think six Americans will understand it" and was baffled and even angered by its popularity in America, referring to it as "my humiliating success in [the] U.S.A."