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First Edition of Evelyn Waugh's The Ordeal Of Gilbert Pinford
WAUGH, EVELYN.
The Ordeal Of Gilbert Pinford.
London: Chapman & Hall 1957.
First edition of what Waugh called his “mad book”—a largely autobiographical account of a period of hallucinations caused by bromide intoxication that he experienced in the early months of 1954, recounted through his protagonist Gilbert Pinfold. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 145512
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“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all": First Edition of Brideshead Revisited; Signed by Evelyn Waugh
WAUGH, EVELYN.
Brideshead Revisited.
London: Chapman and Hall 1945.
First edition of Waugh’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Evelyn Waugh on the title page. Waugh issued a pre-publication edition of the novel in a run of 50 copies. These were printed and specially bound to distribute among friends for Christmas and to solicit any revisions. Several changes were made as a result of his friends’ comments, including suggested alterations by Fr. Martin D’Arcy, Cyril Connolly, and Nancy Mitford. A letter from Graham Greene, Waugh‘s friend and recipient of one of the 50 copies had indicated that Waugh may have only inscribed 19 of the 50 copies (Jeffrey Young Collection, Sotheby’s London, 14 December 1992, lot 182). It is because of the specially issued limited edition that so few copies of the first trade edition exist which are signed. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with tape repair and some closed tears. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Exceptionally rare and desirable signed.
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 145489
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"I am out here trying to study Mexican conditions, but finding it very hard to concentrate while things in Europe look so grave": Rare autograph letter signed by Evelyn Waugh to young Anglo-Catholic writer Richard Arnold-Jones
WAUGH, EVELYN.
Evelyn Waugh Autograph Letter Signed.
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Autograph letter signed by Evelyn Waugh. Quarto, one page on Hotel Ritz, Mexico letterhead, the letter reads, “Sept 14th Dear Mr. Jones, Very many thanks for your letter which has just reached me here. I am so glad you found Scoop funny… Letters like yours are very encouraging. I am out here trying to study Mexican conditions, but finding it very hard to concentrate while things in Europe look so grave. Perhaps my next book will have to be about life in the army. Yours sincerely Evelyn Waugh.” The recipient, Richard Arnold-Jones, was a young man who had recently been awarded the 1938 Duke of Devonshire Prize Competition (offered by the British Empire League). Arnold-Jones went on to become a prominent Anglo-Catholic, poet, teacher and co- founder of the Redrice School. Waugh’s readers would have to wait until 1952 for the first of his three books ‘about life in the army’, but it is interesting to note the germ of an idea was there before the war started and before he had joined up. On his conversion to Catholicism, Waugh had accepted that he would be unable to remarry while Evelyn Gardner was alive. He wanted a wife and children, however, and in October 1933, he began proceedings for the annulment. A delay in the submission of the papers to Rome meant that the annulment was not granted until July 4th 1936. In the meantime, following their initial encounter in Portofino, Waugh had fallen in love with Laura Herbert. He proposed marriage, by letter, in the spring of 1936. There were initial misgivings from the Herberts, an aristocratic Catholic family; as a further complication, Laura Herbert was a cousin of Evelyn Gardner. Despite some family hostility the marriage took place on 17 April 1937 in London. Scoop was published in May 1938 to wide critical acclaim. In August 1938 Waugh, with Laura, made a three-month trip to Mexico after which he wrote Robbery Under Law, based on his experiences there. In the book he spelled out clearly his conservative credo; he later described the book as dealing “little with travel and much with political questions.” In very good condition.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 149224
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First edition of Alfred Duggan's Count Bohemond
DUGGAN, ALFRED. PREFACE BY EVELYN WAUGH.
Count Bohemond.
London: Faber and Faber 1964.
First edition of Duggan’s classic historical novel. Octavo, original cloth. Preface by Evelyn Waugh. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Inscription. Jacket design by Edward Bawden.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 136049
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First Edition of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust
WAUGH, EVELYN.
A Handful Of Dust.
London: Chapman and Hall 1934.
First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition, contemporary name to the front free endpaper. A very sharp example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 39786
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Evelyn Waugh's First Published Novel Decline and Fall; Elaborately Bound in Full Crushed Green Morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
WAUGH, EVELYN.
Decline and Fall.
London: Chapman & Hall 1962.
First revised edition of Waugh’s first published novel. Octavo, bound in full crushed green morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 129591
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First American trade edition of Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece Brideshead Revisited
WAUGH, EVELYN.
Brideshead Revisited.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1946.
First American trade edition of Waugh’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket drawing by Lester M. Peterson.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 124337
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First edition of Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy
WAUGH, EVELYN.
The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy.
London: Chapman & Hall 1948.
First edition of Waugh’s short satirical novel about a Los Angeles funeral parlor. Octavo, original boards, marbled endpapers, illustrated by Stuart Doyle. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Ownership inscription.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 122418
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One of 50 Copies of Evelyn Waugh's The Holy Places; Signed by Him and illustrator Reynolds Stone
WAUGH, EVELYN; ILLUSTRATED BY REYNOLDS STONE.
The Holy Places. With Wood Engravings by Reynolds Stone.
New York and London: The Queen Anne Press; The British Book Centre 1953.
Signed limited issue, number 23 of 50 specially bound copies, signed by both the author and illustrator Reynolds Stone, from a total edition of 1,000 copies. Quarto, original red morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gray endpapers, top edge gilt. Frontispiece woodcut and title page printed in brown, 3 further woodcuts in text printed in black. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 71894
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"I remember Evelyn first at Oxford, a convivial, pink-faced, blue-tweeded figure with, almost invariably a glass in his hand": First revised edition of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop; inscribed by him to life-long friend Patrick Balfour
WAUGH, EVELYN.
Scoop.
London: Chapman & Hall 1964.
First revised edition of Waugh’s satire of sensationalist journalism. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Patrick, with regards from Evelyn.” The recipient, Scottish author-journalist Patrick Balfour,(Lord Kinross), was a life-long friend of Waugh’s. Balfour was serving as a correspondent for The Evening Standard and Daily Sketch in East Africa and became a close companion of Waugh’s as he wrote the present volume. Laid in is a four-page typescript article written by Balfour about his friendship with Waugh, titled “Evelyn Waugh”. The article begins, “I remember Evelyn first at Oxford, a convivial, pink-faced, blue-tweeded figure with, almost invariably a glass in his hand….the time I really got to know him was in his travelling days, those years between 1928 and 1937… [including] Abyssinia, where we served as war correspondents.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional association.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 95271