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Waugh, Evelyn. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. A Romance of the Near Future.. Chapman & Hall, 1953.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: London, 1953; red cloth covered boards; mild corner and spine edge wear; text block edges foxed; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; From the collection of John Shy, Professor at University of Michigan.; 51 pages.

Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.

Evelyn Waugh. Love Among the Ruins; A Romance of the Near Future. Chapman & Hall, 1953.

Price: US$21.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Dust jacket has several tears, tanned. Red cloth cover has worn corners, some water stains. Pencil mark on endpaper. Pages are bright and unmarked, good binding.

Seller: Losaw Service, Lenox Dale, MA, U.S.A.

WAUGH, Evelyn. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. Chapman & Hall, 1953.

Price: US$23.39 + shipping

Description: 8vo. 51 pages. First edition. Dust wrapper, rubbed to edges. Good condition.

Seller: Sportspages, Farnham, United Kingdom

WAUGH, EVELYN. Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future. Chapman & Hall 1953, 1953.

Price: US$24.69 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt cherubian motif to front board, top page edges stained red, frontispiece, illus half title page, 51pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to spine & board edges/extrems, sm teeth marks to upper spine extrem, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. ownership markings in ink to front eps, sl foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG-/tatty (v heavy chipping & loss to edges, moderate tanning to spine & edges, ligth soiling)

Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand

Evelyn Waugh. Love Among the Ruins: Romance of the Near Future. Chapman and Hall, 1953.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original hardcover in jacket, 1st edition, contains some b + w illustrations. Jacket has small chips and tears along spine and at corners; few chips missing, but looks nice overall in protective mylar sleeve. Light fading, soiling to the jacket. Some fading, soiling to the boards, age-toning to the pages with light ordinary reference wear. Overall, nice copy in protective mylar sleeve.

Seller: Snowden's Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.

Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Chapman Hall, London, 1953. First edition. Copy once belonged to Charles Monteith. Book condition: very good.Light shelf wear around the edges and corners. A few light marks to front board which has gilt decoration. Internally very clean. Front paste down has a sticker with Charles Monteith's name and the ffep has a gift dedication from 'Nigel with love' to Charles M. Dust jacket condiiton: good. Unclipped. Small area of loss to rear cover adjacent to head of spine. General rubbing and some slight chipping to corners. Spine slightly discoloured. In this tale, the author imagines a condition in which the politicians are agreed on all major problems. The Welfare State has become a reality and a generation has grown up with very faint memories of an earlier civilisation. Waugh, in typical style, makes this the basis for our amusement. Illustrated by various eminent hands.

Seller: Ariadne Books, PBFA, Eynsham, Witney, OXON, United Kingdom

WAUGH, EVELYN:. Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future.. 1st edit., Chapman & Hall, 1953. In d.w. (a little fraying, some small pieces missing), 1953.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Illus.; 52pp. orig. cloth,

Seller: R.G. Watkins Books and Prints, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom

WAUGH Evelyn.. Love Among the Ruins. A romance of the near future.. 1953, 1953.

Price: US$26.88 + shipping

Description: London: Chapman & Hall 1953. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. In slightly chipped and price clipped dustjacket. (viii 54pp.). With frontisp. and text-illusts some by the author. Some minor foxing. 1st edition.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among The Ruins. Chapman & Hall, 1953.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Dust jacket is chipped at corners and spine. Book has slight wear.

Seller: tim hildebrand books, Janesville, WI, U.S.A.

Evelyn Waugh. Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future. Chapman & Hall, 1953.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very light stain to front board; Pictorial dust jacket shows edge wear, chipping and is missing a section at spine and a few smaller sections at edges.

Seller: Great Books&Cafe @ The Williamsford Mill, Williamsford, ON, Canada

Evelyn Waugh. Love Among the Ruins. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$32.49 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description:

Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future. Chapman & Hall, London, UK, 1953.

Price: US$32.49 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 51 pages. Beige background dustjacket with red line illustration to front with light/moderate wear to edges and corners, not price-clipped. Clean red hardback binding with light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Light browning to page-edges o/w pages clean and tidy.

Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom

Evelyn Waugh. Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future. Chapman and Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$33.79 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First printing. Lacking jacket. Red buckram binding with gilt illustration to front board. Foxing to page edges, endpapers, half title page and final blanks. Light foxing to first and last few pages of text. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £11.20; USA £18.10; Oceania £18.05; Rest of World £15.85. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 5 x 8 inches (13 x 20 cm).

Seller: Tarrington Books, Tarrington, HEF, United Kingdom

WAUGH, Evelyn. Love Among The Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future. With decorations by various eminent hands including the author's. London. Chapman & Hall. 1953, 1953.

Price: US$37.91 + shipping

Description: 12mo, 19.6cm, 51p., illustrated, red cloth, gilt spine titles & vignette on the cover, top edge stained publishers red, fine in good to very good complete jacket, jacket slight dust worn and chipped on the top and bottom spine panel edges, with the remainder prince in pencil on the free fly (Lt).

Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada

Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future. Chapman and Hall, 1953.

Price: US$43.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Book has some very faint wear at top/bottom of spine, previous owner name on endpaper. book is otherwise excellent, very clean and sharp and bright, with a solid binding and clean pages. Dust jacket has tiny tears and modest wear to corners, small chip at lower left of back. otherwise quite clean, free of rubbing. Jacket now protected in a clear cover.

Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Waugh, Evelyn. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. Chapman & Hall, London, United Kingdom, 1953.

Price: US$44.55 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First UK Edition, First Print Octavo, pp. 51. original red cloth, title in gilt to the spine, decoration to front panel, tight binding Internally clean pages. The fragile has uneven dust fade not price clipped.

Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland

Waugh, Evelyn. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS: A ROMANCE OF THE NEAR FUTURE. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. "The Welfare State has become a reality and a generation has grown up with very faint memories of an earlier civilization." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-395. Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 186-8. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 95. Neat owner's name and date in ink on front free endpaper. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with shallow chipping at edges, mainly spine ends and at upper edge of rear panel, and clipped price. (#158744)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

WAUGH, EVELYN. Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$49.28 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8vo. Gilt lettered red cloth in decorative dust jacket. Wear to extremities with some short tears and chips to edge of jacket. A thin volume from late in the author's career.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

Waugh, Evelyn.. Love among the Ruins. A Romance of the near Future.. London Chapman & Hall, 1953.

Price: US$50.12 + shipping

Description: 8°, Front., s/w Illustr. von verschiedenen Künstlern, u.a. auch der Autorin, 3 Bl., 51 S., 2 Bl., Olwd., goldgepr. Titelvign., Rvg. Schönes Ex. + + + Achtung: Für unsere Kunden in Deutschland erfolgt der Versand in der Regel verzollt vierzehntäglich ab Deutschland. + Bankverbindung in Deutschland vorhanden. + Bitte fragen Sie uns an. Danke + + +

Seller: Antiquariat Viarius, Frauenfeld, Switzerland

Evelyn Waugh. Love Among The Ruins (A romance of the near future). Chapman and Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$54.58 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Slim red cloth hard cover with gilt figure on front and gilt titles on spine, no cover wear. Unclipped dust jacket, price 6s. net, with some wear to edges and spine but no significant tears. Clean interior with 51 pages and decorations by various eminent hands including the author's; no inscriptions. Attractively illustrated 1st edition published in 1953 and in fine condition.

Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom

Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS : A ROMANCE OF THE NEAR FUTURE. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$56.25 + shipping

Description: Octavo; Fair+/G-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, tan with black and red print; DJ in mylar, edgewear with small tears at spine ends and flap corners, hinges creased, slight blemishes on rear; Boards in red cloth with gold print, wear to spine caps and corners, short tear at top of rear hinge, generalized fading, slight warping; Text block has red tinted top edge, name in ink on front flyleaf, spotting to endpapers with occasional foxing within; 51 pages, frontispiece, illustrated "with decorations by various eminent hands including the author's" (b&w). 1363863. FP New Rockville Stock.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins: A Romance Of The Near Future. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$56.86 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8vo. Full red cloth. 51 pp. B&W illustrations. T.E.R. Very minor rubbing to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket has minor chips to spine ends and corners, creasing and rubbing to joints.

Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada

WAUGH, EVELYN.. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. A Romance of the Near Future by Evelyn Waugh. With Decorations by Various Eminent Hands including the Author's.. Chapman and Hall., London, 1953.

Price: US$58.48 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 5.25 x 8 inches. [viii] + 51 + [3] pp. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, with gilt block on front board, in pictorial dust wrapper, which has some top edge loss and chips; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by line drawings including half title, frontispiece and endpiece; title page set within ornamental vignette. A satire on the Welfare State set in a dystopian future featuring a romance between between Miles Plastic, an arsonist, and Clara, a bearded woman. ART / LITERATURE NOVELS LIT. FICTION ILLUSTRATED 20TH CENTURY ART / LITERATURE

Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom

WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966). Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future. London: Chapman and Hall, 1953, 1953.

Price: US$58.48 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.51. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt motif to upper board, in amusing pictorial dustjacket, top edge tinted red. Book is near fine; jacket slightly chipped and rubbed, sizeable tears to panels with discreet tape affixed to reverse side. Remains attractive. An inexpensive copy of Waugh's dystopian satire.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

WAUGH, Evelyn.. Love Among The Ruins. FIRST EDITION.. , 1953.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Description: Chapman & Hall. London. 1953. DW. First edition. Slim small 8vo. Illustrated. Pages lightly browned. Neat ownership signature and bookseller's label to front endpapers otherwise a remarkably clean and fresh copy in wrapper with a few small chips along top edge.

Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom

Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among The Ruins. London Chapman and Hall 1953, 1953.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Description: A first edition, first printing published by Chapman and Hall in 1953. A very good book without inscriptions (some darks marks to the front board) in a very good unclipped wrapper with a chip to the rear panel.

Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom

WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966). Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future. London: Chapman and Hall, 1953, 1953.

Price: US$71.48 + shipping

Description: [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.51. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt motif to upper board, in amusing pictorial dust-jacket, top edge tinted red. Book is fine, in a near fine jacket with one chip to top edge. Shows well. An attractive copy of Waugh's dystopian satire.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

Waugh, Evelyn. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. A Romance of the Near Future.. Chapman & Hall, 1953.

Price: US$73.50 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7

Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.

Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: First trade edition. With Decorations by Various Eminent Hands, including the Author's. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt vignette. Fine, in very good dust jacket With Decorations by Various Eminent Hands, including the Author's. 1 vols. 8vo

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

WAUGH, EVELYN. Love Among the Ruins. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$75.81 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo. Gilt lettered red cloth in decorative dust jacket. Illustrations. DJ with several chips to extremities. Ink name to endpaper.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

WAUGH, Evelyn.. Love among the ruins. (Romance of the near future.). With decoration by various eminent hands including the author's.. London: Chapman & Hall, 1953., 1953.

Price: US$80.19 + shipping

Description: 4to. 51 pp, 1 h. Ilustrado con dibujos. Encuadernación tela editorial con sobrecubierta. Excelente estado. Fine copy.

Seller: Librería Antonio Castro, SEVILLA, SE, Spain

Evelyn Waugh. Love among the Ruins: A romance of the near future. Chapman & Hall, dark cream w shelf upstairs, 1953.

Price: US$83.17 + shipping

Description: Condition clean with dust jacket. Previous owners name inside cover, a few small age spots through book. London. 1953. Chapman and Hall. 20x13. 51p.

Seller: Lady Lisa's Bookshop, Chester, United Kingdom

WAUGH, EVELYN.. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. A Romance of the Near Future by Evelyn Waugh. With Decorations by Various Eminent Hands including the Author's.. Chapman and Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$84.47 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 5.25 x 8 inches. viii + 51 + [2] pp. Bound in original red cloth with gilt block in pictorial dust wrapper which is slightly chipped along top edge. Top edges red. Some foxing largely confined to fore-edge but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by line drawings including half title, frontispiece; title page set within ornamental vignette. A satire on the Welfare State set in a dystopian future featuring a romance between between Miles Plastic, an arsonist, and Clara, a bearded woman. ART / LITERATURE NOVELS LIT. FICTION ILLUSTRATED 20TH CENTURY ART / LITERATURE

Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom

Evelyn Waugh. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$87.35 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A ROMANCE OF THE NEAR FUTURE. Bound in red cloth. Gold motive on front, gold title up spine. B/w illustrations. Top edge of text tinted red. Scan available.

Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia

Evelyn Waugh. Love Among The Ruins *First Edition*. Chapman and Hall, 1953.

Price: US$89.67 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A fine book in a near fine DW. Some slight chips to front of DW and top of spine of DW, not significant. A nice, tight copy.

Seller: The Books of Eli, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Waugh, Evelyn. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS: A Romance of the Near Future. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Illustrated with "decorations by various eminent hands including the author's." Light foxing to endpapers and page edges otherwise near fine in near fine price-clipped, lightly nicked dust jacket.

Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.

Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. With Decorations by Various Eminent Hands, including the Author's. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt vignette, some staining, endpapers spotted. Illustrated dust jacket, a few nicks, edges browned. A very good copy and jacket With Decorations by Various Eminent Hands, including the Author's. 1 vols. 8vo

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

Evelyn Waugh. Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$103.96 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A first edition copy of Evelyn Waugh's satire, set in a dystopian future, from the library of the son of Joyce Gill, his life-long friend. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. This intriguing work is one of Evelyn Waugh's post-war novels, in which he shows contempt for the concept of a 'welfare state'. In this satire, set in a dystopian Britain, the protagonist works in a state-run euthanasia centre and falls in love. Illustrated by the author.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 publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is very bright and smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, with the odd spot to the fore edge, affecting the occasional page. Dust wrapper is generally smart with the odd spot and little chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins a romance of the near future.. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$110.46 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 8vo. Pp 51. Frontis and full page illustrations. Original cloth. The unclipped d/w is lightly soiled and has a few short tears - no loss. Top edge stained red.

Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom

Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$110.46 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8vo. Pp 52. Original cloth, stamped and lettered gilt. A little light wear to the edges and boards. The unclipped pictorial d/w shows a little light wear to the edges and there are some signs of creasing, but these have been mostly successfully ironed out. No inscriptions.

Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom

Evelyn Waugh. Love Among the Ruins. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$110.46 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The first edition of this beautifully illustrated dystopian short novel by Evelyn Waugh. First edition, in the publisher's original red cloth binding, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper.This intriguing work is one of Evelyn Waugh's post-war novels, in which he shows contempt for the concept of a 'welfare state'. In this satire set in a dystopian Britain, the protagonist works in a state-run euthanasia centre and falls in love. With charming illustrations throughout, some of which are by the author. In the publisher's original red cloth binding, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with light bumping to the spine. A little rubbing to the gilt on the front board. The odd spot to endpapers. Dust wrapper is very smart, with light edge wear and small chips to the head and tail of the spine. A little sunning to the spine of the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean. Near Fine

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future. Chapman & Hall Ltd, London, 1953.

Price: US$110.87 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Small V chip at top rear corner of jacket spine mostly visible to the rear, and protected by the Mylar archival jacket. This is the only flaw to an otherwise fine copy. A very attractive, clean, unmarked copy, with 6s. price intact.

Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

WAUGH Evelyn. Love among the Ruins. A Romance of the near Future. With Decorations by various eminent Hands including the Author's. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER. Chapman & Hall,, 1953.

Price: US$114.36 + shipping

Description: 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and several illustrations in the text, endpapers lightly spotted; red buckram gilt, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper, the latter chafed (without material loss) at head and tail of backstrip.

Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Evelyn Waugh. Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$123.46 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A first edition copy of Evelyn Waugh's satire, set in a dystopian future, from the library of the son of Joyce Gill, his life-long friend. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper.Bookplate to the front paste down.This intriguing work is one of Evelyn Waugh's post-war novels, in which he shows contempt for the concept of a 'welfare state'. In this satire, set in a dystopian Britain, the protagonist works in a state-run euthanasia centre and falls in love. Illustrated by the author.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 publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is bright and smart except for faint marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd spot to the fore edge, affecting the occasional page. Dust wrapper is a little chipped to the head of the spine, with a small closed tear to the front of the wrap and the odd spot to front and rear of the wrap. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

WAUGH, Evelyn.. Love Among the Ruins - A Romance of the Near Future.. Chapman and Hall, London., 1953.

Price: US$123.46 + shipping

Description: First edition. Octavo. 52 pages. Decorations by various hands including the author's. Red buckram covers with gilt design on upper.Edges and endpapers slightly spotted. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper, designed by the author, a bit creased at the edges.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom

Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among The Ruins. London Chapman and Hall 1953, 1953.

Price: US$123.46 + shipping

Description: A first edition, first printing published by Chapman and Hall in 1953. A fine book without inscriptions (some spotting to the page edges and prelims) in a near fine unclipped wrapper. A superb copy

Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom

Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins a romance of the near future with decorations by various eminent hands including the author's. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$142.50 + shipping

Description: 51p., frontis, illustrated title & half-title pages, nine illustrations, red topstain, tiny bookplate on front pastedown, even tinier light stain on fore edge else very good first edition in red cloth boards and gilt titles on spine, gilt vignette on front cover, dj with price-clipped flap and re-enforced with tape at head of spine on rear. Catalogue number stated on flap and colophon as 5109/4. Young 4024.

Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Waugh, Evelyn. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS: A ROMANCE OF THE NEAR FUTURE .. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. "The Welfare State has become a reality and a generation has grown up with very faint memories of an earlier civilization." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-395. Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 186-8. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 95. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with wear at upper spine end and corner tips and 18 mm closed tear at lower edge of front panel near spine fold. (#148161)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

WAUGH, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of The Near Future. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Hardcover. 51 pages. A slim novella from the author of "Bridehead Revisited"and "A Handful of Dust." Includes some decorations by Waugh and others. A clean very near fine copy in cloth boards in a very near fine dust jacket. A lovely copy.

Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.

Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among The Ruins. Chapman & Hall, 1953.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket.

Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.

Waugh, Evelyn. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. A Romance of the Near Future.. Chapman & Hall, 1953.

Price: US$179.20 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very Good condition. Shows only minor signs of wear, and very minimal markings inside (if any).

Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.

Waugh, Evelyn. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. A Romance of the Near Future.. Chapman & Hall, 1953.

Price: US$179.20 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.

Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.

Waugh, Evelyn. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. A Romance of the Near Future.. Chapman & Hall, 1953.

Price: US$180.40 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers.

Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.

Evelyn Waugh. Love Among the Ruins A Romance of the Near Future. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$181.94 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The first edition of this beautifully illustrated dystopian short novel in the original dust wrapper. First edition of Love Among the Ruins A Romance of the Near Future by Evelyn Waugh in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper.A lovely illustrated short satire novel set in a dystopian egalitarian Britain.With illustrations throughout the text by various artists, including the author.Prior owner's ink inscription to the first free endpaper. In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. There is some wear to the extremities of the dust wrapper resulting in some creases and a few small tears. Some small sections have been fixed with clear tape. To the binding, there is some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Prior owner's ink inscription to the first free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very bright and clean. Near Fine

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

WAUGH, EVELYN. Love among the ruins. A romance of the near future. With decorations by various eminent hands Including the author's. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$218.75 + shipping

Description: First edition, 8vo, 51-[54]pp., illustrated throughout with line drawings; a fine copy in beige jacket printed in black and red.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Clean, bright copy with no marks or signatures; dj clean and bright with original price (6 s); light chipping to edges/corners with 1 small closed tear; red binding and gilt bright and clean; text very clean and tight; a very collectible Waugh title and an interesting read Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Cornelius Muhilly Rare Books, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.

Waugh, Evelyn. LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. A Romance of the Near Future.. Chapman & Hall, 1953.

Price: US$312.20 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Book is in Used-LikeNew condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear.

Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.

Evelyn Waugh. Love Among the Ruins. Chapman & Hall, 1953.

Price: US$695.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Fine Copy In Reddish Cloth. Limited Edition. 1/350 Copies of 300 For Sale Signed by The Author #235 Gorgeous Fresh Copy.

Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.

WAUGH, Evelyn.. Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future.. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Description: 50 pp. With Decorations by Various Eminent Hands including the Author's. 8vo, publisher's red gilt cloth in the publisher's glassine wrapper with text on the front flap. First edition; No. 311 of 350 copies signed b y Evelyn Waugh. Slight tanning to small areas of the endsheets; otherwise a fine copy in the printed glassine with some creasing and a large chip to the top of the spine and rear panel.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Evelyn Waugh. Love Among Ruin, A Romance of the Near Future. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$1026.64 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Love Among Ruins, A Romance of the Near Future signed by Evelyn Waugh, Limited and signed edition numbered 88/350, Published by Chapman & Hall, London 1953, A lovely copy of this limited edition of Waugh's story of satire set in a dystopian quasi-egalitarian Britain. This edition of Love Among Ruins is complete with a rare printed glassine dust jacket. Overall a very good copy/near fine of this classic and collectable title. The book includes decorations by various eminent hands including the author's. Original, red cloth boards with bright gilt illustration on the cover of the book. Lettering on the spine which is very lightly faded in colour. The extremities of the book are in very good condition. The contents are clean and bright. Light spotting only on the end pages. The glassine dust jacket is printed and includes the Two Guineas net price on the flap. Chips on the corners of the wrapper. 8vo 49 printed pages.

Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom

Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION of 350 copies printed. This copy is authentically SIGNED by Evelyn Waugh on the limitation page. A beautiful copy. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's Red cloth with minor wear to the boards. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author in collector's condition. We buy SIGNED Waugh First Editions.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

WAUGH, Evelyn.. Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future. With Decorations by Various Eminent Hands Including the Author's.. London: Chapman & Hall, 1953, 1953.

Price: US$1949.32 + shipping

Description: First edition, signed limited issue, additionally inscribed by Waugh "For Darling Momo, with love from Evelyn", on the limitation page. Maud "Momo" Marriott, née Kahn, was the sister of Nin Ryan and wife of Major General Sir John Marriott. Waugh became friends with the Marriotts through Randolph Churchill, while they were stationed in the Middle East during the Second World War. This is number 20 of 350 copies signed by the author. Octavo (212 x 136 mm). Bound for Asprey in near-contemporary quarter purple morocco, with brown cloth sides, titles to spines gilt with raised bands, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Spine sunned, spine ends very slightly rubbed, internally fine. An excellent copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

Waugh, Evelyn. Love Among the Ruins. Chapman & Hall, London, 1953.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: LIMITED EDITION of 350 copies SIGNED by Evelyn Waugh. A spectacular copy bound in the publisher's cloth. The binding is tight 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.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

WAUGH, Evelyn.. Love Among The Ruins.. London Chapman & Hall, 1953.

Price: US$3327.50 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author, one of 350 numbered copies, specially bound, printed on large paper; 8vo; publisher's red buckram, device to upper board and titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed; some spotting to the endpapers, cloth just a little dull, but a very nice copy housed in a brown cloth slipcase. From an edition of 350 copies, this is of one of the first 50 reserved for Waugh's own use. With the author's presentation inscription to the limitation leaf, 'For Basil with warm regards from Evelyn'. The recipient was Colonel Basil Bennett. Waugh and Bennett had met whilst lodging together under Laycock's command during the war. They became friends and drinking companions which association would last (with a couple of lacunae) till Waugh's death. Bennett's father owned the Hyde Park Hotel and Basil would go on to run it. Waugh stayed there with Laura when the family were in town. A fantastic association copy.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom