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Evelyn Waugh. Decline and Fall. An Illustrated Novelette. Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1928.
Price: US$17.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. First edition, No DJ. Blue boards and spine intact, light edge wear. No apparent markings to pages, PO name on top edge of front pastedown. Tracking available on most domestic orders.
Seller: ABC Books, Springfield, MO, U.S.A.
. Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh. Published by Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$83.26 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 2nd impression October 1928 [1st was September]. Dye from snakeskin cloth has run with staining on end papers and cloth. Photos on request.
Seller: Mike Conry, WORCESTER, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Decline and Fall. Chapman & Hall Ltd, London, 1928.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1928 Chapman & Hall Ltd, Second printing, red marbled cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine, cover is bright, corners lightly rubbed, top edge soiled, a few spots on pages, 288 pages
Seller: Stone Soup Books, Camden, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Description: Chapman & Hall. 1928. Second impression of first edition. No DW. Original red and black marbled patterned boards. Small remains of Boots' Library shield to upper board plus slight marks to rear endpapers otherwise no other signs of library use. Pages browned with occasional foxing, spine sunned otherwise a very clean and sound copy. SCARCE.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
WAUGH, EVELYN. Decline and Fall; an illustrated novelette. Chapman and Hall 1928, 1928.
Price: US$911.95 + shipping
Description: first edition (first state) octavo patterned red boards, 288pp VG- ( cracking at external spine edges and rear gutter, wear to extremities, light foxing and tanning, owners name to fep) Despite the description a presentable copy of the first novel by the author, in the RARE FIRST STATE ( the names of two characters on p168/9 had to be changed, this copy has the original names)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
WAUGH Evelyn. Decline and Fall. Chapman & Hall, 1928.
Price: US$1216.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [xii] 288pp. Publisher's original black and red swirled boards w gilt title to spine. Some light wear to edges of cloth and title faded. Complete w 5 b & w illustrations by the author. V minor sporadic foxing scattered throughout, 1cm tears to front edges of pages 193-208, small stain to page 139, otherwise clean, tight and bright, a lovely copy.
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Decline and Fall. Chapman & Hall LTD, London, 1928.
Price: US$1274.46 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A first impression copy of this entertaining novel by Evelyn Waugh, an association copy from the library of the lover of the author. First edition, first impression, first state, with "Martin Gaythorne-Brodie" and "Kevin Saunderson" unchanged on pages 168 and 169.In the original characteristic red snakeskin-like cloth.'Decline and Fall' is Waugh's first published novel, partly based on Waugh's schooldays at Lancing College and Hertford College, Oxford.As is typical for Waugh, this is a satirical novel, lampooning British society in the 1920s.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and five plates. Collated, complete.Written by Evelyn Waugh, a member of the Bright Young Things group of the 1920s.Pencil inscription of Joyce Gill to the recto of the front endpaper. Joyce Gill was a life-long friend of Evelyn Waugh. Joyce and Evelyn had a passionate affair during the annulment of Evelyn"s first marriage to "She-Evelyn". The pair were introduced sometime around Christmas in 1923 at a nightclub in Fitzrovia, their affair seeming to come to a head in the summer of 1935, when Evelyn invited Joyce to leave her husband and join him on his travels to Abyssinia.Portrait of the author tipped-in the half-title. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, 'Mudie's Select Library' to the head of the front board, a little rubbed and worn with loss. Spine is discoloured. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Small cracks to the rear joint, with a little loss of cloth. A small amount of loss of cloth to the head and tail of the spine. A few light marks to the boards and spine. Rear hinge is starting but firm, with an amateur aged repair causing discolouration. Torn label to the front paste down. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are very lightly age-toned and clean with some scattered spots. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Decline and Fall. Chapman and Hall 1928, London, 1928.
Price: US$1921.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, first issue. xii, 288 pp. Recently bound in full burgundy morocco with all edges gilt and gilt lines. Some light foxing. The author's 1st novel. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Decline and Fall (in fine binding). Chapman & Hall, 1928.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: "Decline and Fall" by Evelyn Waugh. Chapman & Hall, London. 1928 first edition, first printing with "Martin Gaythorne-Brodie" and "Kevin Saunderson" unchanged on pp.168-9, frontispiece by the author, blue crushed half morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g., 8vo. Beautiful copy.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
WAUGH, Evelyn. Decline and Fall. Chapman & Hall, London, 1928.
Price: US$3600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spine extremes of book have been professionally restored. Small four digit number to front free endpaper. The scarce first edition/first state (with the proper names on pp. 168-169) of the author's first book bound in the publisher's original black and red "swirled" boards, stamped in gold. With the five drawings by the author present. Housed in a custom-made matching clam-shell box. 288 pp.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966). Decline and Fall. London: Chapman and Hall, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$3842.59 + shipping
Description: [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 some chips and a long tear along front joint extending to spine, title label sunned as usual. An affordable copy of this major Waugh rarity; a black comedy which was the author's first published novel. Connolly 100.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Decline and Fall. Chapman and Hall - UK, 1928.
Price: US$6200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Decline and Fall 1928 Very Good Plus book in a Very Good Plus jacket Front flap of jacket is detached but complete with price present Additional Photos Available Upon Request Chapman and Hall - UK
Seller: D & L Fine Books, Richboro, PA, U.S.A.
Evelyn Waugh. Decline and Fall. Chapman and Hall, London, 1928.
Price: US$7678.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK - The book is in very good condition. The boards are very clean in appearence with no fading to the spine. The gilt lettering is also bright with no fading. Internally the pages are clean with some light foxing to the page block, and sporadically to a few of the inner leaves. There is a small name to the ffep. The book is tightly bound with no spine lean. The dust wrapper is in very good condition. There is the usual fading to the spine with light chipping to the spine tips, and to the corners of the front and rear flaps. The lettering found to the white label to the spine tip has faded heavily. The printed price of 7s.6d.net is present. Overall, a nice copy of a very scarce Waugh title.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
WAUGH, Evelyn. DECLINE AND FALL. Chapman & Hall, 1928.
Price: US$8325.61 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original red and black patterned boards lettered in gilt, in green pictorial dustwrapper designed by the author. A near fine copy with slight wear to the gilt lettering in an about very good dustwrapper, which is worn to the spine ends and corners with some fraying to the joints. Browning to the spine as always, with the red lettering almost entirely faded with a little chipping to the spine label. Six full page line drawings by the author. The author's brilliant first novel, described by Connolly as "anarchic and experimental, surely one of the wittiest and most original of first novels." Connolly 99: 58
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
WAUGH, Evelyn.. [The novels and short stories.]. London: Chapman and Hall, 1928-57, 1928.
Price: US$11207.56 + shipping
Description: First editions, first impressions, of all of Waugh's full-length novels, from Decline and Fall (1928) to Unconditional Surrender (1961), and his volume of short stories, Mr. Loveday's Little Outing and other Sad Stories (1936). 17 works, octavo. Recent burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Decline and Fall. London Chapman and Hall 1928, 1928.
Price: US$38425.91 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Chapman and Hall in 1928. A very good copy with sunning to the spine with some light wear and a little chipping to the spine tips, a little spotting to the contents and crease to page 81. SIGNED by Evelyn Waugh in his elaborate hand without dedication. beneath Waugh's signature is the inscription 'Stolen from John Betjeman' in Betjeman's own hand. In the supplied dust wrapper which is near fine (or better) with a little wear to the spine tips and corners. The titles are strong. A very nice example of the Author-designed dust wrapper. On the relationship between Waugh and Betjeman (taken from p. 73 of A. N. Wilson's 'Betjeman'): "Waugh, three years older than Betjeman, had been introduced to him at Biddesden by Diana Guinness. he moved in the sam circles of Bowra, Irish country houses, and upper-class bohemia. By the time Betjeman came down from Oxford, Waugh had published his remarkable life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and made a notable hit with his hilarious first novel, Decline and Fall. The relationship between the two men was edgy, perhaps best summarised by Waugh himself in a letter to Betjeman's wife on 7 January 1950 - 'my love to John. Though he doesn't love me as I love him'". From Eade, 'Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited': The two reviewed each other's works, and corresponded on literature and religion. Though they clashed on religious issues, their aesthetics were similar, both abhorring modern architecture and town planning, and admiring Gothic Revival decoration and furniture. A superb association and more so given the fact this is Waugh's first novel. In a custom-made clamshell box
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom