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See below our stock of Evelyn Waugh First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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
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
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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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