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Evelyn Waugh. A Handful of Dust. Chapman and Hall, 1934.
Price: US$38.09 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1934. Second Impression. 348 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with black lettering. B&W frontispiece. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine. Notable scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Book has a forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Handful of Dust. Chapman and Hall, London, 1934.
Price: US$147.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bumping to top and bottom of spine and corners. Wear to edges. Small tear to top of spine of book. Toning and foxing to edges. Light foxing throughout. Water stain on rear board and top of rear end paper and advertising papers. Otherwise a tight copy.
Seller: Gnosis Books, Brunswick West, VIC, Australia
Evelyn Waugh. A HANDFUL OF DUST (First edition - fifth impression). Chapman & Hall, London, 1934.
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fifth impression of the true first edition, printed in the same month as the first impression - September, 1934. Apparently, the novel took just four weeks to reach this fifth impression. With a frontispiece illustration of 'Hatton Abbey - the seat of Anthony Last Esq.' by J.D.M. Harvey. ***Very good in the publisher's stylish black and red snake-skin effect marbled cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still quite bright. The boards are quite clean, but there are some staining marks on the both the front and back boards (please see scans). Head and tail of the spine slightly rubbed and creased but there are no tears to the fragile cloth. There is some rubbing and fading to the lower part of the spine. Corners quite sharp. There is a slight forward lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also very good, with no inscriptions and just some very sporadic light foxing. There is some loss at the top edge of the Chapter One heading page, but no loss of text (please see scans). No other creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***194mm x 130mm. 348 pages plus three pages of publisher's adverts at the back of the book. ***'"A Handful of Dust" is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh. First published in 1934, it is often grouped with the author's early, satirical comic novels for which he became famous in the pre-World War II years. Commentators have, however, drawn attention to its serious undertones, and have regarded it as a transitional work pointing towards Waugh's Catholic postwar fiction. The protagonist is Tony Last, a contented but shallow English country squire, who, having been betrayed by his wife and seen his illusions shattered one by one, joins an expedition to the Brazilian jungle, only to find himself trapped in a remote outpost as the prisoner of a maniac. Waugh incorporated several autobiographical elements into the plot, including his own recent desertion by his wife. In 1933-34 he travelled into the South American interior, and a number of incidents from the voyage are incorporated into the novel. Tony's singular fate in the jungle was first used by Waugh as the subject of an independent short story, published in 1933 under the title "The Man Who Liked Dickens". The book's initial critical reception was modest, but it was popular with the public and has never been out of print. "A Handful of Dust" first appeared in Harper's Bazaar, as a serial in five installments during the summer of 1934, using the alternative, non-Brazilian ending. The complete novel was first published in book form in London, on 4th September 1934, by Chapman and Hall. It was an immediate success with the British public, and within four weeks had reached its fifth impression. In the years since publication the book's reputation has grown; it is generally considered one of Waugh's best works, and has more than once figured on unofficial lists of the 20th century's best novels. Waugh had converted to Roman Catholicism in 1930, after which his satirical, secular writings drew hostility from some Catholic quarters. He did not introduce overtly religious themes into "A Handful of Dust", but later explained that he intended the book to demonstrate the futility of humanist values, as distinct from those of a religious (especially Catholic) nature. The book has been dramatised for radio, stage and screen.' (Wiki) ***A fifth impression of the true first edition, published just four weeks after the first impression, in the original publisher's attractive boards, in very nice original condition. A nice early impression of one of Evelyn Waugh's most popular novels. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. A HANDFUL OF DUST.. Chapman and Hall, London, 1934.
Price: US$165.73 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Fifth impression: September 1934. Un volume (19m5x13 cm) di 348-(3) pagine. In antiporta incisione di Hetton Abbey. Cartonato editoriale con titolo dorato al dorso (no dust jacket). Condizioni molto buone.
Seller: Libreria BACBUC - Studio bibliografico, Roma, RM, Italy
Evelyn Waugh. A Handful of Dust. Chapman and Hall Ltd, London, 1934.
Price: US$186.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4th impression, Sept 1934, good used condition, no dust wrapper, two previous owners signatures inside, fontispiece is loose but still attached, light age discolouration marks, light wear & marks, corners rubbed, photos sent on request.
Seller: The Bookstore, Belfast, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. A Handful of Dust. Chapman and Hall, 1934.
Price: US$251.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Slight bumping to spine. Photos can be sent.
Seller: siop lyfrau'r hen bost, Blaenau Ffestiniog, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust. Chapman & Hall, London, 1934.
Price: US$386.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, first printing hardback Red and black marble effect cloth gilt 348 pp .plus 3 pp publisher's adverts Frontispiece by J.D.M. Harvey Good condition (corners rubbed and part of spine lettering) No dust jacket. Original owner's name and date on front end paper
Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
WAUGH. EVELYN.. A HANDFUL OF DUST.. Chapman and Hall Ltd. London. 1934, 1934.
Price: US$418.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.1 inches). Illustrated mono frontispiece of Hetton Abbey by J. D. M. Harvey. Some minor foxing, mainly to the fore edge and to the margins of a couple of dozen pages otherwise a very good copy in original black and red snakeskin patterned cloth, with the spine lettered in gilt. Some minor rubbing to the extremities of the cloth and light fading to the spine but overall a very good example of Waugh's fourth novel with the gilt still bright.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust. Chapman and Hall, 1934.
Price: US$483.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red and black cloth. A nice copy of the first edition of Waugh's masterpiece.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. A Handful of Dust. Chapman and Hall Ltd., London, 1934.
Price: US$515.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Lacking jacket. Red and black snakeskin cloth binding. Slight fading to spine. Light browning to page edges. Foxing to lower page edge. Foxing to first and last few pages, occasional patches within the text. Frontis by J.D.M. Harvey. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.25 x 7.5 inches (13 x 19 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. 348, [3] (ads)
Seller: Tarrington Books, Tarrington, HEF, United Kingdom
WAUGH, Evelyn.. A Handful of Dust.. London, Chapman and Hall, 1934., 1934.
Price: US$637.69 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., original red and black marbled cloth, spine titled in gilt. Spine slightly darkened, near presentation inscription on front paste down, otherwise a very good copy.
Seller: G. Heywood Hill Ltd ABA, London, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. A Handful Of Dust.. Chapman and Hall, London, 1934.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: 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. Few writers have walked the line between farce and tragedy as nimbly as Evelyn Waugh, who employed the conventions of the comic novel to chip away at the already crumbling English class system. His 1934 novel, A Handful of Dust, is a sublime example of his bleak satirical style: a mordantly funny exposé of aristocratic decadence and ennui in England between the wars. "The most mature and the best written novel that Mr. Waugh has yet produced." (New Statesman & Nation). Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 great novels of the twentieth century, and was chosen by Time magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn.. A Handful of Dust.. London: Chapman & Hall, 1934, 1934.
Price: US$1127.23 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of what is "now widely regarded as Waugh's masterpiece, a satire on the collapse of civilized values, concentrating on the barbarism of contemporary sexual mores and divorce" (ODNB). Octavo. Original black and red snakeskin cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With engraved frontispiece by J. D. M. Harvey. Spine lightly sunned, ends bumped, light foxing to edges and occasionally to contents. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
WAUGH, Evelyn.. A Handful of Dust.. Chapman and Hall, London., 1934.
Price: US$14815.02 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 348 pages. Frontispiece by J.D.M. Harvey.Some light spotting to edges. Very good indeed in good, rubbed and slightly nicked dustwrapper darkened at the spine and edges, chipped at head and tail of spine (with some loss to lettering of the imprint), with two closed tears to bottom edge of rear panel professionally repaired on the reverse. With the original Book Society wraparound band which has a couple of professionally repaired tears.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust. Chapman & Hall, Ltd., London, 1934.
Price: US$15999.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rare first edition copy. Black/red cloth with unrubbed gilt lettering to spine. Foxing to text block edge; some foxing starting to occasional pages. One folded corner. Corners very mildly softened. The original jacket in mylar has been professionally repaired. Price on spine 7/6 net. A tight square unmarked copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn. A HANDFUL OF DUST. London: Chapman and Hall. September, 1934.
Price: US$23832.87 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Publisher's original snake-skin effect cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper and retaining the original wraparound band. A lovely near fine copy, the binding very bright and square with a bump to the fore-edge. The contents are very clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the excellent original dustwrapper which has a few tiny nicks at the extremities with some gentle toning of the spine. This copy retains the rare publisher's wraparound band which has a clean closed tear, with an old tape repair to the reverse and some creasing to the lightly faded spine. Housed in a bespoke quarter black morocco solander case. A scarce title in dustwrapper, exceptionally so in original condition. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. A Handful Of Dust.. Chapman and Hall, London, 1934.
Price: US$28500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. A near fine copy in the rare dust jacket which shows some wear and tear. Signed by Evelyn Waugh. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare especially in the original dust jacket and signed. Few writers have walked the line between farce and tragedy as nimbly as Evelyn Waugh, who employed the conventions of the comic novel to chip away at the already crumbling English class system. His 1934 novel, A Handful of Dust, is a sublime example of his bleak satirical style: a mordantly funny exposé of aristocratic decadence and ennui in England between the wars. "The most mature and the best written novel that Mr. Waugh has yet produced." (New Statesman & Nation). Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 great novels of the twentieth century, and was chosen by Time magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.