Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Waugh, Evelyn. Men At Arms. Chapman & Hall, 1952.
Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The boards are rubbed and marked.Previous ownership inscription.Some foxing.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Evelyn Waugh. Men at arms: a novel. Chapman and Hall January 1952, 1952.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Description: Dust jacket has shelf wear.
Seller: R Bookmark, Youngtown, AZ, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Men At Arms: A novel. Chapman & Hall, 1952.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 314 pages (complete). Boards a bit edge worn, a bit cocked and marked. Mild tanning, a bit insect damaged- not affecting the text, previous ownership little rubber stamp, top stain, markings. However, it is still in fair condition, tightly bound and intact. 1st edition. MN. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Evelyn Waugh. Men at Arms : a novel. Chapman & Hall, 1952.
Price: US$6.42 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In very good condition, some mild page tanning, previous owner's name on front endpaper, some rubbing to corners, and backstrip is very slightly faded. No wrapper.
Seller: Nigel Smith Books, Gunnislake, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Men at Arms: A Novel. Chapman and Hall, 1952.
Price: US$6.52 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1952. No Edition Remarks. 314 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen and pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and heavier foxing and tanning to text block edges and book is shaky. Boards have visible rubbing and moderate bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and major rubbing to spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Men at Arms. Chapman & Hall, 1952.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book is in good condition, only front panel of the jacket has survived but chipped. The boards are edge worn, cocked, marked. Tanning, a bit insect damaged on page edges- not affecting the text, scarring, minor marks within the book. However, it is still in good condition, excellent binding and intact. Pages remains clear and crisp. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Waugh, Evelyn. Men at Arms: A Novel. Chapman & Hall, London, 1952.
Price: US$8.87 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: v + 314 pages, spine lettering dulled, light tanning to page edges.
Seller: Philip Emery, Bridlington, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Men At Arms: A Novel. Chapman & Hall, 1952.
Price: US$9.34 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1952. No edition remarks. 314 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Men At Arms. Chapman and Hall, 1952.
Price: US$10.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1952. 314 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Men at arms. A Novel. Chapman and Hall, 1952.
Price: US$10.27 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: MCMLII edition on blue cloth +oqwners name end paper
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Men At Arms. A Novel. Chapman And Hall, 1952.
Price: US$10.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1952-01-01. Chapman And Hall. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE No DJ. Edgewear. Some foxing.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Men At Arms. A Novel. Chapman And Hall, 1952.
Price: US$10.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1952-01-01. Chapman And Hall. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE No DJ. Edgewear. Rubbed.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
WAUGH, Evelyn:. Men At Arms. Chapman & Hall London, 1952.
Price: US$11.55 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 1st Impression. Hardback. Size 7.5 x 5 inches. Dark blue covers with gilt titles to spine. Small Foyles sticker to front pastedown. No inscriptions. 314 pages. No dust wrapper. Very Good tight-bound volume.
Seller: Tom Coleman, Dingwall, ROSS, United Kingdom
WAUGH, Evelyn. Men at Arms: A Novel. Chapman & Hall, 1952.
Price: US$11.55 + shipping
Description: Lacks jacket - Sword of Honour trilogy. Blue cloth. VG
Seller: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, PERTH, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Men at Arms. Chapman & Hall, London, 1952.
Price: US$12.77 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo (printer's signatures each eight leaves). Blue, cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering on the spine, Some white marks on the covers, no inscriptions, very good otherwise. An opportunity to read the first of the Sword of Honour trilogy in the first edition at a reasonable price. Bibliographic reference: Davis, Doyle et Al, XXVI. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics.
Seller: Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA, HINDHEAD, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Men At Arms (1st Edition). Chapman & Hall Limited, 1952.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue boards with gilt titles to the spine. Small name inscription on the front end page. Firm binding. 1st edition. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging
Seller: Bramble Books, Ipswich, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Men at arms. A Novel. Chapman and Hall, London, 1952.
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth. Free fep a little foxed 314pp, with slight foxing to finals. Gilt on spine a little dull
Seller: PEND BOOKS, Newton Stewart, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Unconditional Surrender & Men At Arms Two Volumes. Chapman & Hall, 1952.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Library withdrawals with usual attributes; texts clean bright and unmarked; in crisp bright dust jackets. Volumes 1 & 3 of the Men at War Trilogy. Men at Arms is Little Brown publisher.
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
WAUGH, EVELYN.. MEN at ARMS. CHAPMAN & HALL, London, 1952.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: BLUE CLOTH BOARDS. SOLID BINDING. EX LIB. QUITE CLEAN. D/J FLAP PASTED ON FRONT PASTEDOWN. 314 PAGES. HAS DATE OF MCMLII AT BOTTOM OF TITLE PAGE. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.
Seller: Come See Books Livres, Canton de Hatley, QC, Canada
Price: US$16.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: True first British printing. No jacket. Dark blue boards with (faded) gold lettering to spine and only good with pushing/bumping to corners, a few small marks, browning/fading to spine, the odd small bump/rub to edges, light crease to spine (book has been read) and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/very small splits to the cloth) to head/tail of spine. Some spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Top of pages dyed blue are slightly dusty. Inside boards/end-papers tanned with the odd small mark/minor foxing. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to page edges and bottoms. Occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Men At Arms: A Novel. Chapman and Hall, Ltd, London, United Kingdom, 1952.
Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The blue boards have gilt letters, short tear at top of rear hinge, otherwise very good, corners sharp, with 314 pp.
Seller: Olmstead Books, Port Dover, ON, Canada
WAUGH Evelyn. MEN AT ARMS. Chapman & Hall, 1952, 1952.
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Description: 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth, top edge blue (casing with slight lean and light wear at head and tail of spine - in protective cover), no dustwrapper. Pp. 314 (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper).
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Men at Arms. Chapman & Hall, London, UK, 1952.
Price: US$19.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 314 pages. No dustjacket. Clean dark blue hardback binding with age-dulled gilt-coloured lettering to spine. Light/moderate wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Binding has a moderate forward lean. Page-edges lightly yellowed o/w pages clean and tidy.
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Men at Arms. Chapman & Hall, 1952.
Price: US$19.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book shows light wear to covers, edgewear. Binding is solid and square, interior/text is not marked in any way. Former owner's sticker at front.314 pages. Contents include Sword of Honour, Apthorpe Gloriosus, Apthorpe Furibundus; Apthorpe Immolatus.
Seller: Pistil Books Online, IOBA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966). Men at arms : a novel. London : Chapman & Hall, 1952.
Price: US$19.84 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 314 pages; 19 cm. Contents: Sword of honour -- Apthorpe gloriosus -- Apthorpe furibundus -- Apthorpe immolatus. Subjects: 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945 ; Fiction; Literature, English 20th century novel. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Evelyn Waugh. Men At Arms. Chapman & Hall, 1952.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st UK edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Chipping & wear to dust jacket. Front flap of jacket detached. Jacket now protected in clear Brodart protective cover. , foxing to end pages, otherwise very good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Men At Arms. Chapman and Hall, London, 1952.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One tip lightly bumped else a solid, unmarked very good copy, lacking the dustjacket
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Waugh, Evelyn. Men At Arms. Chapman & Hall, London, 1952.
Price: US$25.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition/First Printing Published by Chapman & Hall, London 1952. VG clean and tight condition. No marks or inscriptions. Browning to endpages. Clean Blue cloth covers. Mild bumping to bottom front corner. Fading to spine.
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Men at Arms. Chapman & Hall, London, 1952.
Price: US$26.35 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A nice copy of the first edition, first printing without dust jacket. Text is solid, clean, and tight. Lettering to spine is a bit dulled, but very readable. No marks or highlights in text. A few tiny spots to rear board, slight lean. No previous owner's name, but bookseller stamp (from Delhi, India) to front endpaper bottom edge. Not ex-lib. Not a Book Club Edition. Photos sent upon request. Accurate Descriptions/Quality Books/Unmatched Prices
Seller: Novel Ending Books, Franklin, TN, U.S.A.
Evelyn Waugh. Men At Arms. A Novel. Chapman And Hall, 1952.
Price: US$29.19 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1952-01-01. Chapman And Hall. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE No DJ. Edgewear. Previous owners name.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn.. Men at Arms.. Chapman & Hall Ltd, London, 1952.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First British Edition, First Impression. A Fine copy in midnight blue cloth stamped in gilt at spine, dark blue topstain, lacking the dustwrapper. First volume of the Sword of Honour trilogy. Q17096
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966). Men at arms : a novel. London : Chapman & Hall, 1952.
Price: US$31.60 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 314 pages; 19 cm. Contents: Sword of honour -- Apthorpe gloriosus -- Apthorpe furibundus -- Apthorpe immolatus. Subjects: 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945 ; Fiction; Literature, English 20th century novel. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
WAUGH, EVELYN.. MEN at ARMS.. CHAPMAN & HALL, London, 1952.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DEFINITE FIRST EDITION WITH DATE IN ROMAN NUMERALS ON TITLE PAGE. VERY CLEAN AND TIGHT. BLUE CLOTH BOARDS WITH GOLD GILT TITLES ON SPINE. A MAGNIFICENT TRILOGY ON THE FIRST YEARS OF W.W.2. BASED ON THE AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCES. MINOR PENCIL SCRIBLING INSIDE OF BACK COVER AND LAST ENDPAPER, EASILY ERASEABLE. O/W SPLENDID IN ALL RESPECTS.314 pp. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.
Seller: Come See Books Livres, Canton de Hatley, QC, Canada
Evelyn Waugh. Men at Arms: A Novel. Chapman & Hall, London, 1952.
Price: US$83.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition copy of the first novel of Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour series, 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. Ink inscription to the front free end paper. This is the first novel of Waugh's Sword of Honour series, which is based on Waugh's experiences in the Second World War. Men at Arms follows the life of Guy Crouchback, the heir of an aristocratic Roman Catholic family, who joins the army. For this novel, Waugh was awarded the 1952 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. 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. Externally, fairly smart, with fading to the spine to the front board. Mark to the front board. A little shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot and offsetting to the first and last few pages. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. MEN AT ARMS. Chapman & Hall, London, 1952.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in blue cloth, edges rubbed, boards a little soiled, lacks dust wrapper, a lovely clean copy showing light shelf wear only. ; 7.5" x 5.5"; 314 pages
Seller: Luis Porretta Fine Arts, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Evelyn Waugh. Men at Arms. Chapman & Hall, 1952.
Price: US$128.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Considerable foxing to book and dust jacket plus spotting thanks to a pressed poppy leaf. Slight tear at hinge of front broad, otherwise page block is tight and most pages are clean and intact. Not price-clipped.
Seller: Daker Books BA, Kibworth, LEICS, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. MEN AT ARMS (1st edition). Chapman & Hall, London, 1952.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, 1st printing in 1st issue DJ with 15s net. price intact on flap. Chapman & Hall. MCMLII on title page. No later or earlier printings listed on copyright page. Classic red jacket with illustrated sword and halberd. blue leatherish, smooth panels are clean with gilt titles on the backstrip. corners show minor rubbing. Original DJ shows chips along corners and an approximate 1 inch x 1 inch open chip to base of the DJ spine. Darkened topstain. pagedeck shows foxing as does edges of DJ. Toning to endpapers. Too many instances of random foxing keep this nice tight book from grading above VG- . DJ has original price intact and is attractive but suffers from chips and foxing and rated as G only as a result. Still, a tight and attractive copy.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Evelyn Waugh. Men at Arms. Chapman & Hall, London, 1952.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good first edition. Binding square and tight. Slight bumping to spine ends, edges. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Some glue residue to front and back endpapers. Good jacket. Some residue to interior of cover. Not price-clipped. Age-toning to edges, fading to spine. Wear and some small areas of loss to spine ends, edges. Overall a nice first edition copy.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
WAUGH, Evelyn. Men at Arms. Chapman & Hall, London, 1952.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in in internally mended and spine-toned very good dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$288.73 + shipping
Description: First editions. Three volumes. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, top edges blue, dust jackets, not price clipped. Some generally light edge wear to the jackets, fading to the red of the jacket spines of the first and third volumes plus darkening and spotting to the jacket of the second volume, the third volume with some creasing to the upper margin of a handful of leaves and a neat contemporary gift inscription to the front free endpaper, a decent set overall.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
WAUGH, Evelyn. Men at Arms. London: Chapman and Hall, 1952.
Price: US$359.31 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first impression. Octavo, pp v, 314. Bound in blue cloth covered hard boards, gilt lettering to the spine, and in the original dust jacket which is un-clipped and has been re-priced with a sticker for 12/6 net. Book is in Near Fine condition, jacket is Very Good with some invisible archival restoration tape to the verso to fix tears at the spine ends. Jacket spine gently faded.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Price: US$385.72 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover. Condition: Books near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ALL THREE BOOKS ARE FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST IMPRESSIONS. LIGHT EDGE WEAR TO JACKETS WITH THE OCCASIONAL CHIP TO EDGES OF JACKETS, SOME LIGHT FOXING TO PAGE FORE-EDGE OF THE MEN AT ARMS. OVERALL IN VERY GOOD CONDITION WITH NO CRACKED HINGES. To find all 3 books with entirely unfaded dust jackets is a rare find indeed.
Seller: Trinity Books, Boyle, ROSCO, Ireland
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Description: THREE VOLUMES. FIRST EDITIONS. 8vo. 5.25 x 7.5 inches. Men at Arms, v + [i] + 314 pp; Officers and Gentlemen, [x] + 335 pp.; Unconditional Surrender, [viii] + 311 pp. Bound in original dark blue cloth, gilt in pictorial dust wrappers (Men at Arms' price clipped, spine sunned and chipped at head and tail; Officers and Gentlemen, spine slightly sunned and chipped at head and tail; Unconditional Surrender, spine slightly sunned). Top edges blue, Men at Arms and Unconditional Surrender, some sunning; otherwise a very good set. Evelyn Waugh's portrait of regimental life in the British army, by means of the war service of his hero, Guy Crouchback, heir of an aristocratic Roman Catholic family. The overseas settings reflect Waugh's own experiences on the Dakar expedition, in Crete and Yugoslavia. ART / LITERATURE NOVELS LIT. FICTION 20TH CENTURY FIRST EDITION ART / LITERATURE
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$609.55 + shipping
Description: First editions. Octavo. Three volumes: pp vi, 314; [x], 335; [viii], 311. A sequence of novels set in the Second World War. First volume: very good indeed in very good indeed dustwrapper with a few nicks and on reverse a couple of tape marks. Second volume: free endpapers partially tanned; tail of spine bumped; very good in very good indeed, slightly nicked dustwrapper. Third volume: near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper a bit faded at the spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes. 8vo. (7.5 x 5.2 inches). A few small marks to the blank endpapers of Officers and Gentlemen and some offsetting to Men at arms endpapers otherwise bright and clean copies of the books in the publishers dark blue cloth bindings with gilt lettering to the spines. All three in very good original dustwrappers, designed by Val Biro. Some minor chipping to the edges of Officers and gentlemen, while the other two volumes are very bright, fresh and near fine examples without any of the usual fading. The inner flap of the first and last volumes are price-clipped. Overall a very good, attractive set of Waugh's classic trilogy.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$673.71 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A lovely, harmonious first edition set of Waugh's celebrated Sword of Honour trilogy, comprising first printings of Men at Arms (1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955) and Unconditional Surrender (1961) each in the correct first-state dustwrapper. All three books are Fine: uniform bindings in vivid navy blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine; sharp corners; tight and square bindings; publisher's dark blue topstains; modest toning to the edge of the page blocks with a tiny solitary spot to the edge of both the second and third volumes; some offsetting, a bookseller's label, and a short contemporary inscription to the front endpapers of Men at Arms; a little pushing to the spine tips of Unconditional Surrender; else, excellent - bright, crisp and clean. Dustwrapper notes - Men at Arms (Very Good+, clipped): vibrant and unfaded red colouring; a trace of toning to the spine; clean white lower panel; a little fraying to the head of the spine and a small chip to the top of the lower flap fold; small surface scratch to the upper panel. Officers and Gentlemen ((Very Good+, unclipped): vibrant and unfaded navy blue colouring; toning and a little dustiness to the lower panel; modest fraying to the head of the spine and some rubbing to the heel of the spine and corners. Unconditional Surrender (Near Fine, unclipped): crisp with vivid colouring, free from fading; a little toning to the lower panel; a couple of tiny (3mm) closed nicks to the head of the spine; a little rubbing to the heel of the spine and top corners. The dustwrappers are presented in removable, protective covers. All orders are sent very carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and sturdy cardboard. Shipped free within the United Kingdom; a heavy set that will incur additional shipping (to cost) outside the UK.
Seller: Bradhurst Fine Editions, Framlingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$716.34 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first impressions of 'The Sword of Honour' trilogy. A very good set, some light rubbing and chipping to the dust wrappers, short closed tear to 'Men at Arms'. No markings or inscriptions, the wrappers to 'Men at Arms' and 'Unconditional Surrender' are price clipped, some light toning in a few places, but overall very good.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First editions; Men At Arms; Officers and Gentlemen; Unconditional Surrender; The trilogy included in Anthony Burgess' 99 best novels since 1939; Men At Arms, near fine, previous owner signature, in a VG+, not price-clipped DJ with light rubbing to top and bottom of spine which is lightly sunned; Officers And Gentlemen is near fine, in a near fine, price-clipped DJ; Unconditional Surrender is fine in a non price-clipped DJ; featured in a 2001 television drama (in DVD), starring Daniel Craig (the new James Bond) as Guy Crouchback.
Seller: Walt Barrie Rare Books, gleneden beach, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Description: First editions, first impressions, of the three books forming the Sword of Honour trilogy. The author's biographer Christopher Sykes regarded it as "the very highest class of English fiction. not surpassed by any other book he wrote" (Sykes, 429). C. Sykes, Evelyn Waugh: a Biography, 1975. 3 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges blue. With dust jackets. Minor foxing to edges, Officers and Gentlemen with gilt rubbed and ownership inscription on front free endpaper; jackets bright, a little foxing to rear panels, nicks and short closed tears (two neatly repaired with tape on verso of Men at Arms), Unconditional Surrender price-clipped, others unclipped: a very good set in like jackets.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1026.61 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION. Three volumes. 8vo. Fine, clean copies finely bound in recent full dark blue morocco, raised bands, gilt. Single gilt ruled border to boards. Top edges gilt. A fine set, housed in a felt lined, blue cloth covered slip case with a black ribbon tie-pull.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1090.78 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION. Three volumes. 8vo. Fine, clean copies finely bound in recent full dark blue morocco, spines with five raised bands, the compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Single gilt ruled border to boards. All edges gilt. A fine set.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1219.10 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITIONS, a few leaves with a faint crease at bottom corner in third volume, pp. [vi], 314; [ix], 335; [v], 311, crown 8vo, original mid blue cloth, backstrips lettered in gilt, top edges blue, the second volume with a faint bookseller stamp at foot of flyleaf, the edges to that volume a little toned, dustjackets by Biro, price-clipped to first and second volumes, some light dustsoiling to each, that to first with a couple of tiny chips at corners, that to second with toned rear panel, a very good set.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$1324.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Three fine First Impression octavo volumes, each signed on the front jacket flap by the legendary illustrator Val Biro (1921-2014). vi,314; [10],335; [8],311. Original publisher's blue cloth, spines stamped in gilt, top edges stained blue; bright red, blue, yellow, and white dust jackets by Biro. Men at Arms (1952): Fine, tight and square with bright gilt and rich top stain; about Fine jacket (just a degree of fading to spine panel, the end of which are briefly rubbed), priced 12s/6d on publisher's label over printed price. Officers and Gentlemen (1955): Fine and unread (top stain lightly spotted); Fine jacket (spine panel barely lightened), priced 12s/6d. Unconditional Surrender (1961): Fine and apparently unread (single pinhead stain to fore-edge); about Fine jacket (price-clipped), completely unfaded, vibrant and bright. In all, a superb set, rarely seen seen in such condition, let alone signed (no other such set we know of exists). Davis XXVI, XXX, XXXV. Burgess 99, pp. 61-62. Callil and Toibin 200, 39. "Sword of Honour is not merely the story of one man's battles; it is the whole history of the European struggle itself, told with verve, humour, pathos and sharp accuracy." (Burgess). Never planned as a trilogy. Following Officers and Gentlemen, the second installment, Waugh decided he had said all he had to say about Guy Crouchback, heir of a declining aristocratic English Roman Catholic family who, like Waugh, participated in the Dakar expedition, served a stint with the commandos, experienced the débâcle on Crete, and ended the war in Yugoslavia. But Waugh later changed his mind and completed the sequence with Unconditional Surrender. In 1966, he pruned, revised and issued the trilogy as Sword of Honour (the title is drawn from the ceremonial sword, the "Sword of Stalingrad," made "at the King's command," to be presented in recognition of the sacrifices the Soviets had made against the Nazis.) But, according to Burgess, "Most readers prefer to take the items severally and in their unrevised form." In the event, the trilogy is generally regarded as Waugh's greatest achievement in fiction, with its "fine war reportage and superb comic action." According to Christopher Sykes (Waugh's biographer), the trilogy is "the very highest class of English fiction . . . not surpassed by any other book he wrote." Waugh received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Men at Arms. Note: With few exceptions (always noted), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1604.08 + shipping
Description: The first edition set of Waugh's 'Sword of Honour Trilogy'. All books are very good with volume 2 having a neat name and date to the front endpaper and some light damp staining to the front board. Clipping to the wrapper of volume 2. Some light chipping to the spine tips of volume 1 and 2 as well as spotting to the latter. All housed in the unrecorded Chapman and Hall cardboard box, advertising the Sword of Honour trilogy.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Price: US$1764.49 + shipping
Description: 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, backs with raised bands, second and fourth compartments with red morocco labels lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments ruled and tooled in gilt, gilt tops, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive set ideal as a gift or for presentation. The trilogy comprises Men at Arms (1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955) and Unconditional Surrender (1961).
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$1764.49 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Three volumes. Each volume bound in the publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Val Biro designed and illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge blue. All are fine copies, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The top-stain of the last volume has faded. Complete with the very near fine dustwrappers that remain exceptionally clean, bright and without fading. Officers and Gentlemen is price-clipped; Men At Arms is priced 15s net and Unconditional Surrender 18s to the lower front flap. A very attractive set. 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
Price: US$1924.90 + shipping
Description: Uncorrected proof copies of each of the three books comprising the Sword of Honour trilogy. Waugh's friend and biographer Christopher Sykes, the dedicatee of Men at Arms (mis-spelt in the proof copy as "Christopher Syres"), later wrote that the trilogy was "the very highest class of English fiction" and "not surpassed by any other book he wrote" (Sykes, Evelyn Waugh, p. 429). 3 volumes, octavo. Original plain wrappers with proof jacket for Men at Arms, and printed wrappers (no jacket issued) for Officers and Gentleman and Unconditional Surrender. Housed in a black cloth flat-back box. Spines a little sunned and creased. Jacket of Men at Arms a little chipped and soiled, front flap fold re-attached, front wrapper loosening from book block a little. Officers and Gentleman with some pencilled corrections and light creasing to a few pages. Overall a very good set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3528.98 + shipping
Description: First editions, first impressions, of Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy, presentation copy of Unconditional Surrender, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For Henry and Barbara, with neighbourly greetings, from Evelyn. October 1961." The recipients were Henry Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton (1902-1996) and his wife Barbara; Colyton was the Conservative MP for Waugh's constituency, Taunton, from 1950 to 1956. Waugh's biographer Christopher Sykes regarded the trilogy as "the very highest class of English fiction. not surpassed by any other book he wrote" (Sykes, p. 429). C. Sykes, Evelyn Waugh: A Biography, 1975. 3 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges blue. With dust jackets. Men at Arms lightly marked, bumped at head of spine; jackets a little rubbed, spines sunned, a few tiny chips to extremities of Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen lightly toned with one short closed tear to head of front panel, overall bright and unclipped: a near-fine set in like jackets.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$6416.33 + shipping
Description: Three volumes. First editions. 8vo., original cloth, dust jackets, preserved in a folding box. London, Chapman & Hall. Inscribed by the author to Ronald Knox in the second volume, Officers and Gentlemen: 'For Ronnie with homage from Evelyn.' Waugh and Knox became friends when Waugh converted to Roman Catholicism in 1930: Knox, who combined a Church career as RC chaplain at the University of Oxford with the authorship of detective novels, was almost as celebrated a prose stylist as Waugh. Like Waugh he was a convert, and like Waugh he came from a bourgeois background but was happiest among the aristocracy. Waugh was with him when he died and was his literary executor, the duties of which included his biography, published in 1959: ?Ronnie's death has transformed my life. Instead of sitting about bored and idle, I am busy all day long both writing his life and managing his affairs. Ronnie's close business associates are all scrupulous dotards who write to me by every post. That part is a fiendish nuisance but I am absolutely absorbed in the biography.? A near fine set, spines just a little faded, some light water staining to the cloth of the inscribed volume: the jacket to that volume seemingly supplied.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$10586.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACKS - A very good set of books, each title has been signed by the author to the title page in fountain pen. The boards are clean with just a touch of fading to the spine of Officer's & Gentleman. The inner pages of all three books are clean with no foxing, and each title is tightly bound. There is written provenence in pencil to the front pastedown of each title, as to where and when the books where signed by the author. The dust wrappers are in very good condition. There is a little fading to the spine of men at Arms, but overall the wrappers are all clean and fresh with no price clipping to any of the dust wrappers. Overall, a nice set of signed books, very seldom offered for sale as a signed set. Please contact us, if you require detailed descriptions of any or all of the three signed titles.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$48122.45 + shipping
Description: First editions, first impressions, presentation copies to Nancy Mitford, each work inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, all with Mitford's bookplate. Complete sets inscribed to the same recipient are rare, and this superb association commemorates "one of the great literary friendships of the twentieth century" (Thompson, p. 272). Men at Arms is inscribed, "Well here it is, darling. Laugh if you can where you can. Evelyn. Sept. 2nd 1952". While writing the novel, Waugh kept Mitford updated on his progress. "I am scribbling away hard at my maximum opus. I think it is frightfully funny. A bad sign" (19 September 1951). "I have finished that novel slogging, inelegant, boring and what little point it has will only be revealed in the 4th volume at least four years hence. Still there were some dunderheads who didn't like Helena. Perhaps they might like it" (8 January 1952). Shortly before publication, he writes, "I have re-read my forthcoming book awfully bad. But as I have remarked before there is no competition" (31 July 1952). Mitford replied, "I LONG for Men at Arms you have whetted my appetite with all this girlish indifference" (20 August 1952). Mitford was on holiday when her copy arrived from Waugh; on receipt she wrote, "I've just returned from Venice to find nearly 3 weeks post. and Men at Arms for which thank you so much. I don't dare to begin it until I've done all these duties or I know it will engulf me for a day. In Venice the one copy was being torn from hand to hand aren't booksellers idiots really not to cash in on holiday places more". Two days later she wrote, "Goodness it's good. Apart from the shrieks (loudest of all when Corporal Hill shot himself) the things I thought génial were the relationship of the father with the other people in the hotel & the way in which you take yourself off in the act of administering snubs. I love de Souza, & of course the Brigadier. Neither the wife nor the sister seem real to me but I can't say why. You see women through a glass darkly don't you". The second work, Officers and Gentlemen, for which Mitford assisted Waugh with phrases of French dialogue, is inscribed, "Darling Nancy, Not at all your kind of book I am afraid. Try it on O&G Col. [Mitford's lover, Colonel Gaston Palewski]. Anyway here it is with deep love and loyalty. Evelyn. I don't know anyone who takes [Stephen] Spender's paper. Do send me a copy of your essay on Lords". Upon receiving it, Mitford wrote to Waugh: "Darling Evelyn, Howstupidyouare why not my sort of book? Of course the moment it arrived I downed tools & read & read all day" (14 July 1955). Waugh's inscription alludes to the forthcoming publication of Mitford's essay "The English Aristocracy", which sparked the "U" and "Non-U" controversy, and was published in Encounter, the literary magazine founded by Stephen Spender, in September 1955. Unconditional Surrender is inscribed, "For Nancy with love from Evelyn. I hope it may raise a smile here and there. October 1961". After reading it Mitford wrote to Waugh elatedly: "Evelyn your book! Surely one of your very best, oh how I love it. I've blinded myself for a week by reading for far too long but how could I stop? I wish you could have heard my screams when the Serge appeared at your father's funeral. (Colonel always says but will the general public. ? But in fact the general public does)". Writing again two days later, she declared, "I've finished it. I didn't think you brought out the amusingness of the buzz bombs. I've never despised the English bourgoisie so much as during the air raids they were lamentable they used to come into the shop, buy large armfuls of books & bugger". Waugh replied that he "made Box Bender and Elderbury bugger if by that term you mean decamp. Especial love to your poor eyes. Have you no one to read to you? In England everyone would. The French are such selfish hogs" (October 1961). The two corresponded prolifically for more than 30 years, right up to Waugh's death in 1966. Mitford dedicated her novel The Blessing (1951) to him. Though Mitford "corresponded with other literary figures, such as Raymond Mortimer and Heywood Hill. none inspired her to the same heights of sustained levity and wit as Evelyn" (Mosley, p. xv). Michael Davie, ed., The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, 1976; Charlotte Mosley, ed., The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, 1996; Laura Thompson, Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford, Portrait of a Contradictory Woman, 2003. 3 separately published words, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges blue. With dust jackets. Housed together in a dark blue leather entry slipcase by the Chelsea Bindery. A very good set, a few minor bumps to edges, couple of spots to Men at Arms fore edge, contents clean, in the mildly toned dust jackets, lightly rubbed, chipped at spine ends, but bright.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom