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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
![Gibraltar [and] The Humble Herring [and] Ego [in] Men Only Magazine. Evelyn WAUGH, TAFFRAIL,...](/pictures/thumb/60001.jpg?v=1624292944)
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 Art of Fiction XXX [in] The Paris Review. Volume 8, Number 30. Evelyn WAUGH](/pictures/thumb/60103.jpg?v=1631636344)
The Art of Fiction XXX [in] The Paris Review. Volume 8, Number 30.
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
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
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 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. Covers a little dusty, toned to extremities, some wrinkling to spine..... More
![Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, [and] Unconditional Surrender. [Sword of Honour Trilogy]....](/pictures/thumb/61090.jpg?v=1641570183)
Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, [and] Unconditional Surrender. [Sword of Honour Trilogy].
London: Chapman and Hall, 1965. [Military saga] FIRST EDITIONS. 3 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 style), third title in publisher's cloth..... 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
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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