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Autograph letter, signed to Evelyn Waugh; 8vo; Buckingham Palace, 27th October 1948, thanking him for his gift of his novel, The Loved One, 'having read it with enormous pleasure in Horizon, I am enchanted to have the book in such lovely guise, the thick smooth paper & beautiful print and the perfect illustrations are a joy. It is many years since I have enjoyed & admired a book as much as The Loved One, it is so brilliant, so funny & so horrifying, just what one needs in this rather grey self conscious world of today'; 3 pp. folds, envelope.
£2,250 -
First edition, first impression; 8vo; 8 black and white illustrated plates, including portrait frontispiece of Rossetti, scattered marginal foxing; publisher's maroon cloth, titles to spine gilt, some spotting to edges, endpapers slightly toned, with the printed dust jacket, light soiling and staining to jacket, particularly to spine and back panel, a few small closed tears to edges of front and back panels.
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First edition, first impression; 8vo; frontispiece and 5 plates by the author. Publisher's red and black, snakeskin cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the Waugh-designed dust jacket. Spine a little rolled, very light spotting to the fore edge, and excellent copy in the somewhat rubbed sand sunned dust jacket with some trivial loss at two corners. Importantly the title lettering on the the spine is entirely legible. Uncommon thus.
£8,500 -
8vo (205 x 155 mm); illustrated as detailed above; modern half crimson morocco over red cloth, gilt spine, marbled endpapers and top edge gilt.
£275 -
Folio 312 x 255 mm); music score with lyrics, decorated with pictorial vignettes, including title-page, head, tail and endpiece; vrey mild age-toning, offsetting to head of title-page, small nick to base of p.8, else very good; publisher's quarter cloth over papered boards, with printed paper label to upper board, pictorial dust-jacket, sunned spine, very minor soiling, more so to rear panel, chips to extremities with small losses to tail of spine and outer corners; otherwise a very good copy; [ii] + 34 pp.
£75 -
First Edition; Folio 312 x 255 mm); music score with lyrics, decorated with pictorial vignettes, including title-page, head, tail and endpiece; mild age-toning, else near-fine; publisher's quarter cloth over papered boards, with printed paper label to upper board, pictorial dust-jacket, sunned spine, chips to extremities with small losses to tail of spine and upper, outer corner; otherwise a very good and clean copy; [vi] + 40 pp.
£100 -
First edition, signed by the author, number 7 of 110 copies, with a page of the original manuscript tipped in; 8vo; illustrated frontispiece after a drawing by Waugh, photographic plates, decorated endpapers, endpapers with tape marks; publisher's light blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, an unusually fine copy of a scarce item.
£3,500 -
First trade edition; 8vo; frontispiece with map illustration, some foxing; publisher's black and red patterned boards, spine gilt, original tan dust jacket printed in red and black, dust jacket with overall browning, dust-soiling and rubbing, small nicks to spine ends and tips; presented in a black cloth slipcase with gilt-lettered black morocco label; overall a very good copy.
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First edition, one of the limited issue, number 105 of 250 large paper copies signed by the author, large 8vo., plates and illustrations by the author not included in the trade edition. Publisher's purple silk, device to upper board and titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, with the silk marker ribbon intact (though frayed at very end. Spine faded as usual but an unusually nice copy.
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First edition, first impression; 8vo; small ownership inscription to front free endpaper; publisher's grey and navy speckled cloth, spine in dark blue, blue topstain, with the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the nicked and very slightly chipped, internally strengthened dust jacket with the typical faded to the red printing at the spine.
£350