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Evelyn Waugh. Labels. Duckworth, London, 1930.
Price: US$32.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The book is tightly bound, faded on the spine and boards. Top edged greyed, edges browned with light foxing. End papers browned. Pencil markings in the text block. ; 206 pages
Seller: Truffle Books, Liverpool, MERSE, United Kingdom
WAUGH, Evelyn. Labels: A Mediterranean Journal. Duckworth, London, 1930.
Price: US$49.50 + shipping
Description: First impression. Octavo. Blue cloth, titles in gilt on spine; frontis; 209pp. Small nick to cloth at crown; a hint of fading at board edges; shadow of a removed bookplate inside front cover. A solid, VG copy, lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Labels: A Mediterranean Journal. Duckworth, London, UK, 1930.
Price: US$51.53 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 206 pages. States 'First published in 1930 All rights reserved'' to back of title page (no other dates or printing impression information). NO DUSTJACKET. B&W plates and double-page B&W maps, as listed. B&W frontispiece drawn by Waugh (has initials EW) Clean dark blue hardback binding with moderate wear to spine-ends and boards' corners and colour-fading to spine. Light browning to endpapers. Browning and light foxing to page-edges o/w pages clean and tidy.
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
Waugh (Evelyn). LABELS A Mediterranean Journal. Duckworth, London, 1930.
Price: US$51.53 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 206pp, illustrated with black & white plates and drawings, free endpapers lightly tanned, blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, spine and upper margins of boards sunned, no dust jacket. Size: 8.75 x 5.5 Inches
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Labels: A Mediterranean Journal. Duckworth, London, 1930.
Price: US$90.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A smart first edition of this illustrated travel journal from Evelyn Waugh, from the library of the son of Joyce Gill. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and six plates. Collated complete. Waugh's first travel book written on his honeymoon cruise with his first wife, Evelyn Gardner, affectionately known as She-Evelyn. The holiday was not successful as Waugh's new wife fell ill and their activities were inhibited. Written by Evelyn Waugh, an English novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist, and book reviewer best known for his early satires Decline and Fall, and A Handful of Dust. From the library of the son of Joyce Gill, 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. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and minor rubbing to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the top of the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light spotting to the first and last few pages. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 206 p. front., III pl., maps (1 double) 23 cm. ; LCCN: 30-29431 ; LC: D973; Dewey: 910.4 ; OCLC: 2055586 ; "First published in 1930."/ American edition (New York, J. Cape & H. Smith) has title: A bachelor abroad.; purple cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; "Waugh travels to have his biases confirmed, choosing destinations where his prejudices are most likely to be annoyed.By the time you get to the end.you will also have come to the end of your patience with Waugh's appalling opinions on race, women, Islam, democracy, colonialism and Jews."--Nicholas Shakespeare ; Sounds like fun, doesn't it? ; with a review of Waugh's travel writings by John Leonard from a 2003 copy of Harper's Magazine, laid in ; spine sunned ; some nearly invisible splotches on front cover ; else VG
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Labels, A Mediterranean Journal. Duckworth, London, 1930.
Price: US$121.00 + shipping
Description: Good/No Jacket. First Edition. Blue/Purple Buckram Covers. Waugh's Mediterranean Travel Journal. Small chip at top of spine and some minor chipping at bottom of spine.
Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Labels : A Mediterranean Journal. Duckworth 1930, London, 1930.
Price: US$354.27 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 206 pp. Recently bound in half dark blue morocco over dark blue cloth. Raised bands to spine with gilt devices & lettering. New endpapers. Frontis, two maps and other illustrations. No ownership marks. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
EVELYN WAUGH.. Labels. A Mediterranean Journal.. Duckworth, London, 1930.
Price: US$386.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition (first printing) of the author's fourth book. 8vo. 206pp. Blue smooth-weave cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece (drawn by the author), three pages of plates, a double-spread map and another map in the text. Cloth a little faded at the backstrip and at the margins of the rear board, and with a little marking and chafing to the upper board. Edges spotted and the endpapers browned, with a little more quite light spotting to preliminary and concluding leaves. Quite a crisp and bright copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but somewhat tanned, worn, chafed and nicked with some loss to the spine ends and the upper edge. Book Society Recommendation label affixed to the front panel, fitting in quite splendidly with the wrapper design. Davis, Doyle &c vi.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Labels. Duckworth, 1930.
Price: US$412.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth. Spine trifle faded, else nice copy in slightly rubbed, marked dustwrapper, darkened on the spine and with diagonal chip at head of spine.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
WAUGH, Evelyn.. Labels - A Mediterranean Journal.. Duckworth, London., 1930.
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 206 pages. Frontispiece drawing by the author; photographs and maps.Covers faded at top parts of spine and front cover. Very good in good, chipped and nicked dustwrapper with Book Society Recommendation label on front panel wittily in the spirit of the labels in the design. Idiotic use of tape (since removed) has resulted in discoloration to parts of the dustwrapper and also in smaller measure to the spine and pastedowns of the book itself.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
WAUGH. EVELYN.. LABELS. A Mediterranean Journal.. Duckworth. London. 1930, 1930.
Price: US$515.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.8 x 5.9 inches). Frontispiece illustration after a drawing by Waugh, double-page route map, sketch map of Port Said and seven mono photographs on 3 leaves. Publishers purple cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Attractive illustrated bookplate to the front pastedown endpaper. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which has some loss to the very top and bottom and darkening to the spine but is overall still an attractive example of this fragile wrapper.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
WAUGH, Evelyn. Labels. Duckworth, London, 1930.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Bottom 2" of the spine sunned because of a corresponding loss on the jacket spine else very good in good dust jacket with the aforementioned loss, an internal archival repair at the spine fold, and remnants of The Book Society label on the front panel.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn.. Labels. A Mediterranean Journal.. London: Duckworth, 1930, 1930.
Price: US$1223.85 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of Waugh's first book of travel writing, an account of his Mediterranean honeymoon with Evelyn Gardner. He asserts that "all the places I visited in this trip are already fully labelled" (hence the title) and that the purpose of the book is to investigate "the basis for the reputations these famous places have acquired". The honeymoon was not a success. Waugh's wife had been ill before they set off, and travelling the Mediterranean worsened her condition. They returned to Britain, where Waugh submitted his book and, after the sudden collapse of their marriage in July 1930, filed for divorce in September 1930, the month of publication. Labels is written as if he had been alone on the cruise and was re-titled A Bachelor Abroad for the American edition. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top and fore edge trimmed, bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Frontispiece after drawing by Waugh, 4 plates, 1 illustration in text. Book Society sticker on jacket front panel. Spine faded, ends and corners lightly rubbed; unclipped jacket a little toned, upper edge slightly creased and nicked, couple of short closed tears at head of front panel: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
WAUGH, EVELYN.. Labels. London: Duckworth, 1930, 1930.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Owner's signature; very good in dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn.. Labels. A Mediterranean Journal.. London Duckworth, 1930.
Price: US$2722.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, number 13 of 110 copies, signed by the author, with original manuscript leaf bound in; 8vo; illustrated frontispiece after a drawing by Waugh, photographic plates, decorative pictorial endpapers; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, extremities soiled, spine darkened, housed in modern black quarter morocco clamshell box. Number 13 of 110 copies, signed by the author. With an original manuscript leaf bound in, comprising 17 lines, with deletions and revisions, on one page of lined paper, small oblong 4to size, folded. The text corresponds to text printed at pages 184, 185 and 186 in the accompanying work.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
WAUGH Evelyn. Labels. A Mediterranean Journal. , 1930.
Price: US$3220.66 + shipping
Description: First edition. Large 8vo., original blue cloth, t.e.g., decorated endpapers. London, Duckworth. Number 49 of 110 numbered copies signed by the author, with a page of the original holograph manuscript tipped-in. Spine slightly faded and marked, and with some variable browning to the upper and lower covers, otherwise an excellent copy. Labels is Waugh's first travel book, the fruit of a difficult season in the Mediterranean for the recently married Waughs, especially since She-Evelyn fell seriously ill with pneumonia and was on the point of death in Port Said. As Martin Stannard writes, with characteristic understatement: ?Some of the romantic enthusiasm which had led her into an impetuous marriage had inevitably died during that trip? and within a couple of months of their return she had fallen in love with John Heygate and the marriage was effectively over. Waugh wrote her out of the text under her own identity, instead turning themselves into a fictional couple called Geoffrey and Juliet, and the American edition was published as A Bachelor Abroad. The book is largely a pot-boiler travelogue but is not without moments of genius: the chapter on the cultural history of sunrise in Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory quotes Waugh on ? the sight of Etna at sunset; the mountain almost invisible in a blur of pastel grey, glowing on the top and then repeating its shape, as though reflected, in a wisp of grey smoke, with the whole horizon behind radiant with pink light, fading gently into a grey pastel sky. Nothing I have ever seen in Art or Nature was quite so revolting.? The special copies were issued with a leaf of Waugh's manuscript to increase their collectability, and the present copy has the amusing and very Waughvian episode where a ?beautiful and splendidly dressed Englishwoman? launches wave after wave of flattery upon him, flattery that of course was aimed at his elder brother Alec. ?Then she said to me, ?You know, I am psychic. The moment I came into this room to-night I knew that there was a great personality here, and I knew that I should find him before the evening was over.? I suppose that real novelists get used to this kind of thing. It was new to me and very nice. I had only written two very dim books and still regarded myself less as a writer than an out-of-work private schoolmaster.?
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
WAUGH, Evelyn.. Labels: A Mediterranean Journal.. London Duckworth, 1930.
Price: US$4235.00 + shipping
Description: 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. With an autograph manuscript in Waugh's hand, comprising 17 lines, with deletions and revisions, on one page of lined paper, small oblong 4to size, folded. The text corresponds to text printed at pages 36 and 37 in the accompanying work.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Labels a Mediterranean Journey. Duckworth, London, 1930.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of 110 copies with the ORIGINAL Manuscript present. This copy is authentically SIGNED by Evelyn Waugh on the limitation page. A beautiful copy. The book is excellent shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED Evelyn Waugh First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn.. Labels. A Mediterranean Journal.. [London]: Duckworth, 1930, 1930.
Price: US$6441.31 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Tom from Evelyn, his worst book". The recipient was Thomas Balston, the partner at Duckworth who had seen Waugh's early potential, given him a £50 advance on his biography of Rossetti, and been away from the office when Waugh came in to offer his first novel, Decline and Fall. Waugh's brother later recalled that because of Balston's sharp eye, "Duckworth got not only the book on Rossetti, but all of Evelyn's subsequent travel books. They would have got his novels too, had not Duckworth in Balston's absence been scared of the audacities of Decline and Fall", which was instead published by Chapman and Hall in 1928. There were also suggestions that Gerald Duckworth refused the book because of his friendship with Lady Burghclere, the disapproving mother of Waugh's new wife. Waugh later presented a copy of Decline and Fall to Balston inscribed "To Tom Balston - the stone that the Builder rejected". Labels came about because Waugh was under contract to write a travel book for Duckworth about his belated honeymoon cruise with Lady Burghclere's daughter, also named Evelyn. The holiday was not a success. His wife had been ill before they set off, and travelling the Mediterranean worsened her condition. Waugh wrote to Harold Acton from Port Said, where Evelyn was bedridden with pneumonia: "At last she is out of danger. Meanwhile of course our trip is broken, we shall be here for a month, & all my work at a standstill. I hope now things are easier to start on a new novel. In spite of all reports this is an intolerably dull town". They returned to Britain, where Waugh duly submitted his book and, after the sudden collapse of their marriage in July 1930, filed for divorce in September 1930, the month of publication. Labels is written as if he had been alone on the cruise, and was re-titled A Bachelor Abroad in the American edition. Alec Waugh, "My Brother Evelyn", The Atlantic, June 1967. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Book Society sticker on front panel. Spine sunned, ends gently bumped, a near-fine copy in like jacket, toned spine, three short closed tears at top edge, one corner just chipped, a few creases, very fresh.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom