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Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman and Hall, 1945.
Price: US$48.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1945. Third Edition. 304 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Minor stains on pages 10-11 but textblock is unaffected. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman and Hall and the Book Society, London, 1945.
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: First edition thus (May 1945). 8vo. Pp 304. Original cloth, faded, stained and rubbed. Fore-edge foxed. Bookplate to front paste-down endpaper. Structurally sound and tight.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Price: US$70.85 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Mild page tanning, edges slightly more so, St John Library label on front pastedown, previous owner's name on tanned front endpaper, else internally in good condition; cover has some mild shelfwear, a faded backstrip, and some light corner bumps. No wrapper.
Seller: Nigel Smith Books, Gunnislake, United Kingdom
Price: US$77.30 + shipping
Description: Book club edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth, top edge red (faded at head and tail of spine - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (poor - very creased and torn with partial loss at spine - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 304 (no inscriptions).
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
WAUGH, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman and Hall, 1945, 1945.
Price: US$83.74 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. Hardcover. Original red boards, some fading to spine and gilt title lettering, endpapers and pages clean, bar a small smudge on the front text block, no foxing elsewhere, short closed tears across the tops and bottom edges of some leaves, couple of leaves overtrimmed vertically. First impression of one of Waugh's best-known novels describing the 'Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder'.
Seller: Shellhouse Books, Quinton, Northants, United Kingdom
Price: US$85.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original red cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean and tightly bound copy without dust jacket. Spine sunned.
Seller: The Glass Key, Montmorillon, France
Price: US$103.06 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This is the authorised economy standard first edition, first impression of 1945. Rebound in dark cream cloth boards with black printing to spine. Front board has a black mark.New endpapers, Edges are bumped. Pages are age-tanned with small creasings and occasional foxing. Light spotting to page edges. Previous owner's signature on frontispiece dated 1946.
Seller: Reader's Books, Petworth, United Kingdom
Price: US$122.38 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Book: Binding secure, light foxing to endpapers and a few spots to fore-edges. Red cloth has some fading -silverfish damage ? No damp odour. Dustwrapper bedraggled. Held together by new Brodart overwrapper but half of dw spine missing, browning to edges. Titles on front panel all clear but tear across front panel. Not price-clipped, no inscriptions . Further illustrations on request.
Seller: Ystwyth Books, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
WAUGH, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman & Hall, London, 1945.
Price: US$122.38 + shipping
Description: Internally very good subject to slight browning, a little spotting to the inside covers/endpapers and a few creases (could be when bound). Date (19 November '81) in biro on fep , figures " 5 45 " stamped on rep - small, neat. Edges of text-block browned with slight staining. Binding firm. Boards reasonably bright with a few marks and slight water staining. Spine rather sunned with wear to the bottom edge Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman & Hall, London, 1945.
Price: US$122.38 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition/First Printing Published by Chapman & Hall, London 1945. Ink box to front pastedown with erased name. Erased name from ffep and ink number 89. No other marks or inscriptions. Clean pages with mildly age toned edges. Red cloth covers have some scattered mottling and black ink mark to bottom front edge. Some fading to text on spine.
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited [Hardcover] Evelyn Waugh. Chapman and Hall, 1945.
Price: US$131.25 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 1945 book club edition looks like it was never used five novels on rear of dust jacket dust jacket is fine
Seller: Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A first edition in the original gilt-stamped red cloth (spine faded with some spotting and wear; slight wear to extremities). No jacket. From the library of American poet and critic William Matchett, with his ink inscription on front endpaper.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman & Hall & The Book Society, 1945.
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Chapman & Hall & The Book Society, 1945 Listed as number 45 on the 2003 BBC survey The Big Read, this story follows the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder from the 1920s to the early 1940s, especially his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle. In good condition, the binding is tight with a slight lean and the lettering on the spine is quite bright. Both boards are marked and there is sun damage to the spine. There is some shelf wear to the edges of the spine. The slightly toned and foxed end papers and pages are free from tears. There is a Book Society plate to the rear of the from board. The top edge retains its original red tint. Will be dispatched wrapped in bubblewrap and in a cardboard box.
Seller: Grimes Hill Book Club, Wythall, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman & Hall, London, 1945.
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition/First Printing Published by Chapman & Hall in conjunction with the Book Society, London 1945. VG clean and tight condition. No marks or inscriptions. Book Society bookplate to ffep. Very occasional mild spotting. Clean and bright Red cloth covers with mild fading to spine .
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$165.73 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: blue cloth, gilt lettering, 304 pp, first edition, owner's pencil inscrition on both endpapers, tear on bottom spine, chips on edges spine, slightly soiled on cover and back cover Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Price: US$193.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 'Revised edition'. 8vo. Publisher's original red cloth, gilt lettered & bordered to spine, gentle discolouration to boards with some light soiling, spine is faded though lettering still bright enough, a tidy square copy, with minimal wear and no bumping, contents clean and pleasing with no ownerships or marking, without dust wrapper; 'Revised edition' in bold upon the title page indicates likely to have been issued after the first trade edition of May 1945, with still further revisions to the text. An unusual edition, sadly without a dust wrapper, with date (MCMXLV) and seemingly with same points at the first. Photos provided.
Seller: B. B. Scott, Fine Books (PBFA), London, UK, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman and Hall and the Book Society, London, 1945.
Price: US$206.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing by Chapman and Hall and the Book Society; issued the same year as the first trade edition. Lacking the DJ. Remnants of a label or bookplate to the rear of the front pastedown; otherwise near fine with no internal marks or inscriptions. Spine faded.
Seller: No. 5 Rare Books, Caistor, United Kingdom
Price: US$231.89 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good. Lacking dust jacket. Ownership inscription neatly penned to free front endpaper. Endpapers and page edges slightly foxed.
Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United Kingdom
Price: US$238.33 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Cloth, P. 304pp, cloth worn, spine faded & with some of the lettering a little rubbed, ink inscription to the pastedown, edge of the text block foxed & yellowed. A poor example of the first impression of the first edition which sold out in a week upon publication. Waugh's famous novel which, in his own words 'deals with what is theologically termed 'the operation of Grace', that is to say, the unmerited and unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to Himself'. 300 grams.
Seller: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman and Hall, London, 1945.
Price: US$380.04 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 1945. This is the first printing in collaboration with Chapman and Hall and Book Society published at the same time as the Trade Edition and in exactly the same style, colour and format except the book is slightly slimmer and the text on the wrapper spine is smaller. Text tight and clean with foxing to fore-edges and e.p.s. in bright publishers' cloth with slight fading at bottom of spine. In unclipped wrapper with chipping to top and tail of spine, corners and edges. Spine browned with some minor staining otherwise relatively clean. Images available on request.
Seller: Bath House Books, Ditchingham, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited (Revised Edition). Chapman and Hall, London, 1945.
Price: US$508.86 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Revised Edition. Publishers Cloth Gilt. No Dustwrapper. A Good or Better Book. Slight Fading to Spine With Dulling to Lettering. Slight Wear to Boards. Slight Spotting to Page Edges. No Inscriptions. PBFA Member. We Welcome Direct Contact With Our Customers. Contact Neil Ewart Rare Books If You Require Any Further Information or Images.
Seller: Neil Ewart, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Waugh Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman & Hall, London, 1945.
Price: US$579.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green covers with boots library sticker on front. Titles to spine which shows some shelf wear.304pp. No foxing No marks or inscriptions.
Seller: Valuable Volumes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$579.72 + shipping
Description: First edition owned and annotated by Evelyn Waugh's biographer Selina Hastings, with the author's signature mounted on the title page. Publisher's cloth binding, spine faded, light marks to boards, internally complete but many leaves exhibit short closed oblique tears at the head and occasionally tail of the leaves - seemingly a production flaw. Mounted on the title-page is the author's signature, 'Evelyn Waugh', probably cut from a letter; adhesive paste showing through on the verso of the leaf. Ticket of the Anglophile 'Holliday Bookshop, New York' to the tail of the final pastedown. This copy was owned and annotated by Lady Selina Hastings whose biography of Waugh appeared in 1994. Hastings has annotated the text with numerous marginal dots next to the text throughout and writes thus about the novel in her biography 'There are two main themes in Brideshead Revisited, the first, that of the working out of a divine plan in the restoration and creation of faith, encompassing the second, the infatuation of Charles Ryder for an entire noble family, the Flytes. Brideshead is undoubtedly a great novel; with a fair claim to be Waugh's finest achievement. in Brideshead that he engages with the issues that lay nearest his heart.' Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item
Seller: Christian White Rare Books Ltd, Ilkley, YORKS, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman & Hall, London, 1945.
Price: US$586.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition/First Printing Published by Chapman & Hall, London 1945. Good clean and tight condition. Owner's name and 1945 date to ffep. No other marks or inscriptions. Spotting to endpages. Red cloth covers have slight fading. Dustjacket not price clipped (10.6d. net) Tanned. Chips and small sections missing from base and spine. Large section missing from rear. Protected in archive cover.
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$644.13 + shipping
Description: Chapman & Hall and The Book Society. London. 1945. DW. First edition, thus. Published almost at the same time as the true first. Book Society bookplate tipped in on the front pastedown with the original owner's name neatly handwritten, top edge red. Pages 69/70 have a close 1cm tear to margin.Cloth boards very clean and bright. Wrapper is tanned to spine with small creases and nicks along edges. Rear panel is very slightly soiled. Wrapper is NOT price-clipped. A very clean copy generally.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman & Hall, London, 1945.
Price: US$771.67 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition/First Printing Published by Chapman & Hall, London 1945. Good clean and tight condition. Owner's name and 1945 date to ffep. No other marks or inscriptions. Spotting to endpages. Red cloth covers have slight fading. Dustjacket not price clipped (10.6d. net) Tanned. Chips and small sections missing from base and spine. Large section missing from rear. Protected in archive cover.
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman and Hall, London, 1945.
Price: US$772.96 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First trade edition first printing by Chapman and Hall 1945. Recently and sumptuously rebound by Shepherds of London in full blue Japanese silk with blue leather label to spine with gilt title and author. Gilt decoration to label and printing year in gilt to the base of the spine. A very handsome copy.
Seller: No. 5 Rare Books, Caistor, United Kingdom
Price: US$1095.02 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.1 inches). A bright and clean copy Finely bound in full red morocco leather. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Twin black labels, gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt. A fine copy.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited (in fine binding). Chapman & Hall, 1945.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh. Chapman & Hall, London. 1945 first UK edition first printing. Book in very good condition in fine binding: recent full binding in burgundy morocco, gilt lined and spine gilt with raised bands, orig. spine bound in at end. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder, most especially his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle. Ryder has relationships with two of the Flytes: Sebastian and Julia. The novel explores themes including Catholicism and nostalgia for the age of English aristocracy.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$1932.39 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: HARDBACK - The book is in near fine condition, free of any previous owner names or inscription, with clean unfaded boards. Lightly toned pages, free of any foxing, in a near fine or better dust wrapper, that shows as an exceptionally clean example. Free of any restoration.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman & Hall, 1945.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh. 1945 first UK edition first printing. Book in very good condition, very light spotting to endpapers and edges, original cloth, spine lightly faded, corners bumped, in original dust-jacket, spotted and browned, chips to corners and joints, faded biro markings to lower panel, nicks and short tears to edges, light creasing to extremities, 8vo. Waugh's most popular novel, his exploration of the demise of the English country house and Catholic identity, in rare first issue dust jacket.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman and Hall, London, 1945.
Price: US$2512.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK - A very good or better book with clean red cloth boards. A little fading to the spine tip. Internally there is a Book Society book-plate to the front pastedown. The inner text is clean, but there is a small closed tear to the top edge of a number of pages, that is almost certainly a publishers production fault. The dust wrapper is also a very good example with a one centimeter chip to the spine tip with shallow chipping to the base of the spine. The red lettering to the spine has faded to a degree, but overall the dust wrapper is a clean example with the publishers printed price of 10s.6dnet present to the front flap. A correct UK first edition published in 1945, conforming to wartime restrictions, thus printed on poor paper stock.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$2898.59 + shipping
Description: First trade edition, first impression, of Waugh's most enduring novel, which he often referred to as his magnum opus. Brideshead Revisited was written from January to June 1944, while Waugh was recovering after breaking his leg during parachute training. The author revealed in his autobiography that the story "portrays some aspects of my Oxford life" (Waugh, p. 191). The character of Sebastian Flyte was based on memories of Alastair Graham, one of Waugh's best friends and "romances" during his university years. Exploring the theme of Catholicism for the first time, the novel was described by Waugh as "an attempt to trace the workings of the divine purpose in a pagan world, in the lives of an English Catholic family, half-paganised themselves, in the world of 1929-39" (Wilson, p. 108). The trade edition is preceded only by a small pre-publication issue, privately printed for the author and circulated among friends, such as Nancy Mitford, to receive comments and suggestions for improvements; as a result of their criticisms, Waugh substantially revised the text for the present edition. Evelyn Waugh, A Little Learning: the First Volume of an Autobiography, 1964; John Howard Wilson, Evelyn Waugh: a Literary Biography, 1996. Octavo (180 x 113 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in greenish-blue morocco, spine lettered and decorated with centre tool gilt, raised bands, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, patterned endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$4186.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first impression. Small octavo, pp 304. Bound in red cloth covered hard boards and in the original dust jacket, un-clipped (10s. 6d. net). The book is in Very Good condition, cloth faded to the spine and with a lengthy gift inscription to the ffep dated June 1945, otherwise clean and unmarked internally. The jacket is worn and chipped at the spine ends and turn-ins and has a long separation from the bottom where the spine meets the rear panel, the red text to the spine remains clear and much less faded than usually found. Overall a VG book in a VG- jacket.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman & Hall, London, 1945.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. This is the TRUE FIRST EDITION published in London by Chapman and Hall. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with minor repair. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with a hint of wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$4508.92 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Chapman and Hall in 1945. A very good book with some spotting to the page block and a little staining to the top edge. No inscriptions - little browning to the spine tips. Light stain to the front pastedown corner. Crease to the rear pastedown. In a dust wrapper which has benefitted from restoration to the spine and a little to the edges. A poignant exploration of love, faith, and societal change in pre-World War II England. The novel follows Charles Ryder's evolving relationships with the aristocratic Flyte family, particularly his friendship with the charismatic Sebastian Flyte and his complex connection with Sebastian's sister, Julia. Through the lens of Charles's narrative, the novel delves into themes of nostalgia, Catholicism, and the decline of the British aristocracy. Waugh's eloquent prose captures the essence of a bygone era, blending social critique with a deeply personal and evocative portrayal of characters navigating the shifting sands of love and identity.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Price: US$4830.99 + shipping
Description: First trade edition, first impression, of Waugh's most enduring novel, in a well-preserved example of the notoriously fragile jacket produced to war economy standards. Waugh himself repeatedly referred to this novel as his magnum opus. Brideshead Revisited was written from January to June 1944, while Waugh was recovering after breaking his leg during parachute training in December of the previous year. The author revealed in his autobiography that the story "portrays some aspects of my Oxford life" (Waugh, p. 191); the character of Sebastian Flyte was based on memories of Alastair Graham, one of Waugh's best friends and "romances" during his university years. Exploring the theme of Catholicism for the first time, the novel was described by Waugh as "an attempt to trace the workings of the divine purpose in a pagan world, in the lives off an English Catholic family, half-paganised themselves, in the world of 1929-39" (Wilson, p. 108). Evelyn Waugh, A Little Learning: the First Volume of an Autobiography, 1964; John Howard Wilson, Evelyn Waugh: a Literary Biography, 1996. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Foot of spine faded, small bump to lower edge of rear cover, binding otherwise sharp, contents clean, short close tear to upper margin of pp. 47-74; jacket lightly rubbed, spine panel toned, head of spine panel and corners chipped, not-price clipped: a very good copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman & Hall, London, 1945.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy SIGNED by Evelyn Waugh on a laid in signature. This First Issue dustjacket has the 10s 6d net printed price present on the front flap. This ORIGINAL sophisticated dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears. The book is bound in the publisher's Red Cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the spine and edges. Overall, a wonderful copy SIGNED by the author. We buy Waugh First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$9075.00 + shipping
Description: First UK trade edition; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's pink cloth, gilt lettering to spine, spine slightly cocked, spine ends slightly bumped, with the original unclipped dustjacket, extremities soiled, a few minor chips and closed tears, most heavily affecting head and foot of backstrip, else very good. '.his most carefully written and deeply felt novel. The brightly devastating satirist of England's twenties and thirties moves from one world to another and a larger one: from the lunacy of a burlesqued Mayfair, very glib and funny and masking the serious point in farce, to a world in which people credibly think and feel' (NY Times Book Review). Subtitled 'The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder', Waugh's defining novel details the spiritual lives behind the facades of an aristocratic family and their middle-class friend, the protagonist.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited.. Chapman and Hall, London, 1945.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Description: 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. "Waugh's most deeply felt novel. Brideshead Revisited tells an absorbing story in imaginative terms . . . Mr. Waugh is very definitely an artist, with something like a genius for precision and clarity not surpassed by any novelist writing in English in his time" (New York Times).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.