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Evelyn Waugh. Waugh In Abyssinia. Longmans, Green And Co, 1936.
Price: US$20.47 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Ex Library, 1st Edition, covers and spine well worn and in poor condition, corners bumped and worn, top and bottom of spine bumped and worn, rip on edge of spine join with back cover 14 cm, surface of covers grubby, internally in reasonable / poor condition, pages crisp and clear but some wear to edges and corners, some light foxing and a few small marks and stains, both hinges cracked and webbing showing and loose, main body of book loose between covers
Seller: Neo Books, Sidcup, KENT, United Kingdom
Evelyn. Waugh. Waugh in Abyssinia.. Longmans, Green and Co., 1936.
Price: US$42.73 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1936. First Edition. 253 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Front free end paper and half-title page is clipped. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. Boards have heavy edge-wear with substantial bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Substantial split to spine joint exposing text block edge.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Waugh, Evelyn. Waugh in Abyssinia. Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1936.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo; G- Hardcover; Red spine with Gold text; Boards shaken, cocking to spine, sunning to spine, moderate edgewear, some shelfwear, fraying and open tears along spine edges, open tears along head edge of both covers, bumping and rubbing to corners, open tears along rear joint; Textblock has age toning, writing in pencil on front and rear pastedowns, ink stamp on front endpaper, foxing on some pages, black marks on front endpaper and pastedown; 253 pp. 1336662. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn. Waugh in Abyssinia. London: Longmans, Green and Co (1936)., 1936.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, (viii), 253, (1) pp. Original gilt titled red cloth, spine with mild sunning and a couple of very light marks. Davis, Doyle et al. XIV.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. Waugh in Abyssinia. Longmans, Green And Co., London, 1936.
Price: US$102.66 + shipping
Description: Hardback clothbound with gilt tooled title to spine. Top edge of pages red. Cover and spine moderately rubbed with a few fade marks and small stains. Gilt title a little faded but still relatively clear. Bumping to edges, spine edges a little frayed. Lifting to lower spine and split in the cloth of the rear hinge. Occasional spotting to pages edges. Rear endpapers marked where it appears a bookplate has been removed. Date stamped. Binding nice and tight. Overall good condition. 253 pp.
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
Waugh (Evelyn). Waugh in Abyssinia. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1936.
Price: US$166.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Waugh's intriguing mix of travel writing, political commentary, and journalistic observation that offers a snapshot of the Abyssinia Crisis of the 1930s. The worked courted some controversy upon publication, with some, including author Rose Macaulay, considering it too supportive of the Italian Fascists.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Waugh, EVelyn. WAUGH IN ABYSSINIA. Longmans Green and Co, London/NY/Toronto, 1936.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: -------------Reddish cloth covers, 8 1/2" tall. 253 pages---------GOOD CONDITION only, tight solid binding and inner hinges, clean unmarked text - - but- - covers dull and dusty and with damp stain and fading back and with bleed of the red color inisde both front and back cover s abit. Text is in original clean condition. No dust jacket--------Rare First Printing-----
Seller: Melanie Nelson Books, Livingston, NY, NY, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn.. Waugh in Abyssinia.. Longmans, Green & Co, London., 1936.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. [viii], 253. An eye-witness account of the Italian invasion, written at a time when Waugh was professing fascist sympathies. This trip also gave him much useful material for the novel Scoop. Faint signs of erasure from front free endpaper. Very good. No dustwrapper.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
WAUGH, Evelyn. WAUGH IN ABYSINNIA. Longmans, Green, London & New York, 1936.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, 253pp., red cloth rubbed Chapter 1: "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to the Ethiopian Question"
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. Waugh In Abyssinia. Longmans, Green, London, 1936.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very light general wear; bookstore sticker (small and inoffensive) rear pastedown;; else a clean, unmarked near fine copy in very fine mylar-protected facsimile dustjacket (but lacking the original dustjacket). 'First published - 1936'--copyright page. Photos avaliable on request.
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
WAUGH. EVELYN.. WAUGH IN ABYSSINIA.. Longmans, Green and Co. London. 1936, 1936.
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo. (8.8 x 5.8 inches). Some very light spotting to just a few few pages but generally a very good copy in recent fine leather binding of full red morocco. Spine with raised bands, gilt. Decorative gilt border on boards. Top edge gilt.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$936.76 + shipping
Description: Small 4to. (8), 253, (1) pp., final blank leaf. Contemporary full cloth with giltstamped spine title. Top edge red. First edition. In his fourth travel book the British writer Waugh (1903-66), who was commissioned by the Daily Mail to cover events in Ethiopia in August 1935, makes a case for the Italian intervention in the country, presenting "a lucid and interesting narrative of personal experience, and useful as a minority defense of Italian occupation and attack on British policy" (Morris/Dooley). Interestingly enough, a printed sheet of paper denying the oil magnate Francis William Rickett access to travel facilities to Persia and the states on the Persian Gulf is loosely enclosed. On the journey from Port Said, Waugh met Rickett, who was dispatched by the African Exploration & Development Company to conduct secret negotiations with the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie in pursuit of a concession. While Waugh was up country, sidetracked by another story, Rickett was conferring with government officials in Addis Ababa at the dead of night. After a week of to-ing and fro-ing, papers were signed by which about half the nation's subsoil rights - an area of nearly 400,000 square km - was made over to Rickett for a period of 75 years. By the time he sailed into Suez, the story had made world headlines. Waugh, for his part, missed the scoop and was sacked. - A few marginal notes in pencil, some of them highlighting passages that also appear in Waugh's 1938 novel "Scoop", a satire of sensationalist journalism and foreign correspondents. Newspaper clipping with excerpts of a review of "Waugh in Abyssinia" from the Times Literary Supplement of 7 November 1936 is loosely enclosed. - Spine and lower inner hinges slightly worn. Still a good copy. - Morris/Dooley, Evelyn Waugh: a reference guide 15. OCLC 807259442.
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
WAUGH, Evelyn.. Waugh in Abyssinia.. London Longmans Green and Co, 1936.
Price: US$3025.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; 8vo; internally fine; publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, red topstain bright, minor bumping to spine ends, with the original pictorial dustjacket by John French, minor creasing to bottom edge of lower panel, tiny nicks to head and foot of spine, else near-fine. First edition, with the printed overslip on the front flap of the dustjacket correcting the blurb that the author had originally objected to. Copies in the preliminary state exist if a tiny handful of examples.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. WAUGH IN ABYSSINIA. Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1936.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: 1st printing. SIGNED BY EVELYN WAUGH. Waugh has neatly signed the front free endpaper with his less common method of "E Waugh". Original red cloth lettered in gilt. Light foxing to the endpapers; faint shadow on front board where an old sticker was removed. Black mark along lower foredge. Overall a hardcover book in very good condition. One of Waugh's scarcer titles in the first edition and rarely found autographed.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn. Waugh In Abyssinia.. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1936., 1936.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., inscribed on the half-title "for Audrey from Waugh in Ickleford August 1945", publisher's original gilt lettered red cloth binding, VERY GOOD.
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$4812.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first UK printing, published by Longmans, Green and Co., London in 1936. The book is in Very Good++ or better condition with just some very light mottling to the boards. The gilt titling remains bright. Free from inscriptions and erasures. The red top stain is present. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good+ condition. It is the very elusive first state wrapper. Some edge-wear with loss at the spine ends and a small chip to the upper front panel. Some light toning to the spine and mild staining to the rear spine fold. Splitting to the spine folds with some tape reinforcement to the verso. The John French wrapper artwork remains striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. Before publication, Waugh objected to the publisher's blurb on the front flap of the wrapper. Longmans attempted to recall all copies hitherto distributed and stuck a card with revised printed text over the offending blurb on the front flap. This is one of the very few copies with the uncorrected wrapper that has survived. This copy refers to Mr Waugh went to Addis Ababa as a war correspondent, but failed to see very much of war . It is thought that only a handful of copies exist with this preliminary state wrapper with only two copies as such have appeared at auction in the last 20 years. A scarce survivor. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom