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Waugh, Evelyn; wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. The Holy Places. The Queen Anne Press, 1952.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red cloth binding under grey printed dust jacket. Most of the spine panel is missing from the jacket and there is some edgewear; priced as if it wasn't present, but the Reynolds Stone illustration on the front panel is still in nice shape.
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper, CBA, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn; wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. The Holy Places. Queen Anne Press, 1952.
Price: US$69.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited 91/950. Tips of corners show very faint wear, very top edge of covers are faded. otherwise an excellent copy, very clean and sharp, with a tight bindings and clean pages. Dust jacket has toning to edges, some very light edge and corner wear, a few small spots of foxing. otherwise clean and presentable, now protected in a clear cover.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$89.83 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Set in Eric Gill's Pilgrim and Perpetua types and printed in red and black on Spicer's mould-made paper. Number 125 of 900 (950) copies. Single full-page and three smaller wood-engravings. Red full buckram, titled and stamped in gilt. Lacks dust-jacket, otherwise a nice bright copy.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$115.49 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. LIMITED EDITION OF 950 COPIES. Privately printed at the Queen Anne Press on Spicers` mould-made Cream Wove paper. Wood engravings in colour & b/w by Reynolds Stone. Orig.red buckram stamped in gilt with monogram of the Queen Anne Press and with gilt lettering on spine.Top edge stained red.Very discreet impression of a library stamp on lower corner of front cover. Slightly bumped to upper corner of front cover and slight wear to lower spine. Otherwise, an excellent copy. 8vo. 38pp.
Seller: Bookstand, Poole, United Kingdom
WAUGH, EVELYN. The Holy Places. The Queen Anne Press, London, 1952.
Price: US$150.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One of 900 [of 950] numbered copies [#567] bound in red cloth with gilt decoration to front board and to spine. Illustrated throughout with black and white wood engravings. Previous owner's name to front endpage. Dustjacket has browning to spine panel and to front and rear panels along spine edges, as well as some dampstaining in the same areas.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Description: First edition.Limited edition of 950 numbered copies. Small 4to., original red buckram with dust wrapper. Wrapper with closed tear to upper panel and a little chipping, slightly grubby, otherwise a very good copy.
Seller: G. Heywood Hill Ltd ABA, London, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. The Holy Places. Queen Anne Press, 1952.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. Red buckram. Very nice copy in browned dustwrapper. One of 950 numbered copies.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
EVELYN WAUGH. THE HOLY PLACES. THE QUEEN ANNE PRESS, LONDON, 1952.
Price: US$192.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: *LIMITED EDITION 673/950* THE DUST JACKET HAS SOME STAINING AND WEAR AROUND THE EDGES, CORNERS AND SPINE. THE BOARDS ARE A NICE BRIGHT RED. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. BOOKSELLER STICKER ON FFEP. THE PAGES ARE GENERALLY CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF AN INTERESTING BOOK
Seller: Happyfish Books, Meopham, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$352.90 + shipping
Description: [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. No.263 of 950 copies. Large Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.37; [5], printed on cream wove paper. Original red Buckram with gilt titles, and gilt 'QA' monogram to upper board, top edge red, other edges untrimmed. A clean, fine copy. Waugh gives a short account of his travels in the Holy Land, seemingly a British colonial success story, towards the end of 1935 and shortly before the Arab Revolt. An early title from the publishing house run by Ian Fleming. Later owned by Fleming's bibliographer Jon Gilbert (also published by QAP). Gilbert, p.665.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$1604.08 + shipping
Description: [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. No.75 of 950 copies, with publisher's compliments slip inserted, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Large Octavo. pp. 37; [5], printed on cream wove paper. Type set in Eric Gill's Pilgrim and Perpetua fonts. Original red Buckram with gilt titles, and gilt 'QA' monogram to upper board, top edge red, other edges untrimmed. Illustrated dust-jacket priced at 15s. Book is clean, jacket gently toned to extremities. A fine copy of a finely produced book, from the publishing house run by Ian Fleming. Later owned by Fleming's bibliographer Jon Gilbert (also published by QAP). Waugh gives a short account of his travels in the Holy Land, seemingly a British colonial success story, towards the end of 1935 and shortly before the Arab Revolt. A superb edition, not to be confused with the regular American equivalent (1000 copies) issued in a smaller format, in association with the British Book Centre, NY, the following year. Gilbert, p.665.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
WAUGH, Evelyn.. The Holy Places.. The Queen Anne Press, London., 1952.
Price: US$2117.39 + shipping
Description: First edition. Quarto. pp [viii], 38. Two essays on the Holy Land. Wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. Red buckram covers gilt. One of 950 numbered copies.Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: ''With Christmas greetings from Evelyn Waugh''. Also on the front free endpaper is the pencilled ownership inscription of Anne Ford who was the publicity director for Little, Brown, Waugh's publishers in the U.S.A. Loosely inserted is a small black and white photograph of Waugh standing in his garden.On the first blank is the later small ownership signature of John Metcalf, the Canadian writer, critic and editor. Head and tail of spine faintly rubbed. Very good indeed in good only, nicked and chipped dustwrapper which is slightly dampstained and tanned, with a close tear along much of the fold of the front flap.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom