Reims: Printed for Champagne Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardin by the Curwen Press, 1961. [Champagne] SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Large octavo (27 x 18cm), pp.[8] 54 [2]. With frequent black and white illustrations by Drian. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Publisher's yellow patterned soft covers, with the original..... More

London: The Queen Anne Press. November 1952. [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. No.75 of 950 copies, with publisher's compliments slip inserted, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Large Octavo. pp. 37; [5], printed on cream wove paper. Type set in Eric Gill's Pilgrim and..... More

London: The Queen Anne Press. November 1952. [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. No.263 of 950 copies. Large Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.37; [5], printed on cream wove paper. Original red Buckram with gilt titles, and gilt 'QA' monogram to upper board, top..... More

London: The Continental Publishers & Distributors, July 1968. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Magazine (25 x 18cm), pp.96. Publisher's colour paper covers, priced at 5s. Light wear only to covers. Near fine. An illuminating selection of letters from Evelyn Waugh to Winston Churchill's son Randolph, exchanged between 1941 and Waugh's death..... More

Paris: The Paris Review, Summer-Fall 1963. [Literary Magazine] INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] 181 [9]. With 11 black and white illustrations on plates, and occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's soft cover with price in dollars, Franks, and shillings. Moderate handling and toning to covers. Very good. Containing the transcript..... More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1963. [Short story] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, No.20 of 750 copies. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.50, with colour frontispiece. Publisher's light blue cloth, top edge gilt, gilt design of Basil Seal, blue endpapers, edges untrimmed. Small owner's signature to foot of limitation page else a very fine..... More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1945. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.304. Regular Chapman & Hall sheets. Publisher's pink cloth in decorated dust-jacket priced at 10s.6d. This is the jacket issued simultaneously by the Book Society, as this title was one of the 'Society Choice' titles..... More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1950. [Historical fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.265 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the primary 'wood-grain' dust-jacket, priced at 9/6. Toning to edges, and some rippling to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Cloth shows extensive water staining and..... More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1953. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.51 [5]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt motif to upper. Top edge red. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 6s. Internally crisp and clean, with a touch of rippling to..... More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1952, 1955, 1961. [Military saga] FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 8cm), pp.314; 335; 311. Cloth hardcovers, with original jackets designed by Val Biro. First two volumes are in secondary bindings (W.H. Smith or The Times book club in..... More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1955. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13), pp.[8] 335 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 12s. 6d. Top edge blue. A crisp, clean copy of the book in a lightly used jacket with a small..... More

London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1959. [Biography] First Edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.358; [2], blank. Illustrated with ten half tone plates. Publisher's hardback blue cloth binding, gilt titles to spine, in photographic dust-jacket priced at 30s. net. Contents clean, no inscriptions, edges of text block lightly spotted, jacket a...... More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1955-62. [Military saga] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, SIGNED by the author. 3 volumes. Octavo, pp.314, 335, 311. Navy blue cloth hardcovers, titles in gilt to spine, top edges tinted blue, in original jackets designed by Val Biro. In the publisher's pictorial slipcase adverting the set for sale..... More