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Evelyn Waugh | First Editions
1903 - 1966
See below our stock of Evelyn Waugh First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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Little Innocents: Childhood Reminiscences.
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1932. [Childhood Anthology] DELUXE FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii, 124 [4]. In contemporary full vellum with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Binder's label for Leighton Straker Bookbinding Co. to copyright page. A little toning to edges, and some light marks and discolouration..... More
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Gibraltar [and] The Humble Herring [and] Ego [in] Men Only Magazine.
London: C. Arthur Pearson, October 1936. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo magazine (19 x 13cm), pp.152. With 12 double-sided illustrated plates, many in colour, with further in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue soft covers, priced at 1s. Lightly toned throughout. Covers toned, and rubbed to edges. Very good. A withering piece on..... More
The Loved One. An Anglo-American Tragedy. Illustrated by Stuart Boyle.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [1948]. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.144. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and marbled endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket. Light spotting and browning to edges. Jacket toned to spine, with chips and tears to edges, as well as..... More
Black Mischief.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1932. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.303; [1]. Frontispiece map. Elegantly hand-bound in black half morocco over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Contents clean, exterior as new. A fine copy in a handsome recent leather binding. Waugh's..... More
Decline and Fall.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1928. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.288. Octavo. Illustrated novelette. Publisher's snake skin-effect cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper correctly priced at 7/6. Both book and jacket are used; flyleaf has two small 'file' numbers, rear inner joint cracked, general handling and wear, jacket with..... More
A Little Learning. The First Volume of an Autobiography By Evelyn Waugh.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1964. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 234. With five double-sided black and white plates, and a photographic frontispiece. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink. With the pink typographic dust-jacket, priced at 30s. Fine, but for some spotting to..... More
Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1953. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.51. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt motif to upper board, in amusing pictorial dustjacket, top edge tinted red. Book is near fine; jacket slightly chipped and rubbed, sizeable tears to panels with discreet tape affixed..... More
Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1953. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.51. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt motif to upper board, in amusing pictorial dust-jacket, top edge tinted red. A very good copy with gift inscription to flyleaf, jacket a little worn and toned. A...... More
The Loved One Published in Horizon - A Review of Literature and Art, Edited by Cyril Connoly.
London: Horizon, 1948. FIRST APPEARANCE - predates the first edition in book form. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.60. Publisher's card covers, decoratively printed in black and orange, advertisements as issued. One small stain to foot of upper else fine. Subtitled 'An Anglo-American Tragedy', Waugh's 'The Loved One' is a short..... More
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. A Conversation Piece.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1957. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.184. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Val Biro, priced at 12/6. Discreet bookseller ticket else book is fine. Jacket is very good with a few chips and tears. Shows well. Gilbert Pinfold is a middle-aged..... More
Put Out More Flags.
London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1942. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's oatmeal hardcover cloth in original dust-wrapper priced at 8s. No inscriptions. A very good copy of the book in a rather worn jacket with chips, tears and loss. A satire of the phoney war, and..... More
Sword of Honour. The Trilogy which includes: Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrender.
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..... More
A Tourist In Africa.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1960. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.167; [1]; blank. Illustrated with black and white plates. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket priced at 16s. No inscriptions or price-clipping. Book is pretty clean; jacket is near fine but for one tear..... More
A Tourist In Africa.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1960. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.167; [1]; blank. Illustrated with black and white plates. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket priced at 16s. A clean copy of the book. Minor edgewear to jacket, which is toned to the spine..... More
Unconditional Surrender.
London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1961. [Military saga] First Edition. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp. 311. Publisher's hardback blue cloth binding, top edge tinted blue, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Val Biro, priced at 18s. net. No inscriptions or ownership marks. Trivial toning to page edges and spine panel, a...... More
Work Suspended.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1942. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Crown octavo, pp.150. Limited to 500 copies only. Publisher's burgundy cloth in original dust-wrapper. With Waugh's autograph to flyleaf, dated in his hand (Dec.1942). Pencil ownership of Vivien Borthwick (died 2010), later Baroness Campbell of Alloway. Both book and..... More
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