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WAUGH, Evelyn. The Holy Places. Queen Anne Press / British Book Center, U.S. and U.K., 1953.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This book is an interesting companion piece to Waugh's 1950 fictional biography of the third century St Helena, and was later collected in the 2003 volume "Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing". Edition limited to 1,000 copies, 50 of which were signed by author and artist and bound in leather. This is number 458 of the 950 regular copies. Frontispiece engraving, and title, printed in brown. Three additional wood engravings printed in brown, as are the initial letters. The book was printed at the Queen Anne Press in London and this copy is described as the edition "for the United States of America". Edges are slightly browned, otherwise a fine copy in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with minor edgewear and one two inch closed tear to base of front panel.
Seller: The Bark of the Beech Tree, Depoe Bay, OR, U.S.A.
Evelyn Waugh. The Holy Places. London & New York: Queen Anne Press / The British Book Centre, 1953.
Price: US$115.44 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First and Limited Edition, being number 106 of an edition of 1000 published for the US market. 38 pages. Wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. Fine condition in a VG+ jacket, price clipped and with a few edge tears without loss.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition. #181 of 850 numbered copies of the regular issue (there were 150 Signed copies). A Fine copy in dull orange buckram, in a Near Fine pale grey dustwrapper printed in black, price-clipped, with tiny wear to crown, upper flap points. 37pp. with four wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. Clean and unmarked. Printed in Great Britain. Two pieces about Palestine. Q19579
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. The Holy Places. Queen Anne Press/British Book Centre, London/New York, 1953.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Copy 139 of an edition of 1000. 38 pages, wood carvings by Reynolds Stone; 8vo, red buckram. Near fine; dust jacket good+, short tears, edge wear, spine sunned
Seller: Abstract Books, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$224.47 + shipping
Description: [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. 1000 copies (this being un-numbered/out-of-series). Large Octavo. pp. 37; [5]. Original red cloth with gilt titles,illustrated dust-wrapper. Fine, in near fine price-clipped jacket, slightly toned to spine with an ink smudge to rear panel. 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
Waugh, Evelyn. The Holy Places. Queen Anne Press, London, 1953.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Advance review copy. One of 950 first edition copies in gilt stamped red buckram (unnumbered and unsigned). DJ in archival cover, rear chip, age toning on edges.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$895.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Edition signed by both Evelyn Waugh and Reynolds Stone of Waugh's observations about and reflections on ancient and sacred places in the Middle East. Illustrated with woodcuts by the distinguished 20th century British engraver Reynolds Stone. One of fifty numbered copies bound in red Niger morocco leather and signed by both Evelyn Waugh and Reynolds Stone on a limitation page. This copy is number 20. 37 pages, illustrated, gilt titles. No dust jacket. Has rubbing on several small spots on the spine edge of the front cover as well as rubbing on the fore edge corners both top and bottom. Also a bit of foxing on the front endpapers. We'll cheerfully provide photos upon request.
Seller: M.S. Books, Salisbury, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Description: Signed limited issue, number 23 of 50 specially bound copies, signed by both the author and illustrator Reynolds Stone, from a total edition of 1,000 copies.ÂQuarto, original red morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gray endpapers, top edge gilt. Frontispiece woodcut and title page printed in brown, 3 further woodcuts in text printed in black. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The Holy Places is Evelyn Waugh's travelogue concerning his journey through the Middle East. It is based on an article Waugh wrote for Life magazine, "The Plight of the Holy Places," (24 December 1951) after visiting Israel Palestine in 1951 with his friend Christopher Sykes. Patrick Leigh Fermor reviewed the work in the Sunday Times, noting that "few minor pleasures equal the delight of opening a book as beautifully presented as this."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.