Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Waugh, Evelyn. When the Going Was Good. Little and Brown, 1947.
Price: US$7.29 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First US edition very good clean pages with marked brown cloth boards
Seller: Karl Eynon Books Ltd, tywyn, United Kingdom
Evelyn Waugh. When the Going Was Good (First Edition). Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1947.
Price: US$8.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition stated. Generalized sun fading to the binding. No wear to the binding. No distortion from reading or improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. Previous owner's small name stamp on the front flyleaf. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. No dust jacket,
Seller: Book Stall of Rockford, Inc., Rockford, IL, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. When the Going Was Good. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1947.
Price: US$9.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A nice copy of the stated first edition. Brown cloth. We ship fast.
Seller: Mountain Books, Kent, CT, U.S.A.
WAUGH, EVELYN. When the Going Was Good. little brown & co 1947 boston, 1947.
Price: US$10.70 + shipping
Description: first US edition octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Waugh, Evelyn. When the Going Was Good. Boston Little Brown 1947., 1947.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Description: G ex-library. Compilation from his four travel books between 1929 and 1935. From 1928-1937 Waugh had "no fixed home and no possessions which would not conveniently go on a porter's barrow". They were day-to-day accounts of things seen and people met, interspersed with commonplace information and some "rather callow comments". Library markings, taped on covers from removed DJ. Illustrated by Striking color frontis Waugh. 1st ed.
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DJ shelfworn, a couple of tears
Seller: Books End Bookshop, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. When the Going Was Good. Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1947.
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 314, brown cloth HB with compass embossed on front and gold lettering on spine/color painting of Waugh at age 26 on frontispiece
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. When the Going Was Good. Little Brown, Boston, 1947.
Price: US$19.80 + shipping
Description: Nice copy in its first printing with First Edition stated on copyright page. Unmarked, tight and square. No dust jacket. Tan boards with gold lettering on spine. Light crimping at head of spine. Sharp tips. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
WAUGH, EVELYN. When the Going Was Good. Boston: Little Brown, 1947, 1947.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition thus. Owner's name and dust to top edge, else a very good copy in a rubbed and chipped dust jacket.
Seller: Trevian Books, Piermont, NY, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. WHEN THE GOING WAS GOOD. [Travel]. Boston: Little, Brown 1947., 1947.
Price: US$23.00 + shipping
Description: G+, clean HB; no DJ. xii + 314 pp.
Seller: de Wit Books, HUTCHINSON, KS, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. When the Going Was Good. Little, Brown and Company, 1947.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dustjacket edgeworn and chipped, some tape repair; about 95% present ; Little Brown, 1St Ed.
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn. When the Going was Good. Little, Brown & Co, MA, 1947.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Very good/Poor Browning of pages. Dustwrapper browned, rubbed, fading. Worn and torn. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Evelyn Waugh. When the Going Was Good. Little Brown, Boston, 1947.
Price: US$29.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Protected jacket has a 1/4 inch piece missing across the top and bottom of the spine, and other edge wear, price-clipped, Covers in very good shape, binding straight, pages clean and unmarked. A previous owner's logo on the first inside page, which has a fold mark from top to bottom just to the right of the middle. First Edition stated on copyright page. A classic of travel writing, featured in Paul Fussell's study Abroad. Rare and collectible.
Seller: Bill's Books, Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. When the Going was Good. Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1947.
Price: US$30.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red lettered blue cloth with faded spotting to spine. A small stain to base of front endpaper, else a very good clean copy. Dust jacket unclipped, with very light wear and a few scratches to spine. A good + to very good copy overall.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Waugh, Evelyn.. When The Going Was Good.. Boston: Little, Brown and Company., 1947.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo., 314 pp., Very Good, Brown Cloth, minor stains on title page and edges of text block, shelf wear.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. When the Going Was Good. Little, Brown, 1947.
Price: US$37.58 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. (travel writing, autobiography)
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. When The Going Was Good. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1947.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Xiii, 314 Pp. Brown Cloth, Gilt. First Edition Stated. Lightly Used, No Marks, Faint Dampstaining In Upper 2 1/2" Of Spine And In Shallower Areas Across Both Boards, No Trace On Endpapers Or Pages. Dj Clean, Priced $3.00, No Fading, Some Tiny Tears And Minute Losseas Around Corners, Small Trace Of Dampstain Around Priuce On Front Flap.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 314 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine, and a compass blindstamp on front cover. Light scattered foxing. Previous owner's name in pencil on front blank endpaper. DJ lightly soiled and foxed w/ wear and few short tears to edges. Faint dampstain to bottom corner of rear panel of DJ. Illust. w/ a color frontispiece of the author.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn. When the Going Was Good. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1947.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Scrapes on front pastedown thus very good in near fine dust jacket with very light wear at the spine ends.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn.. WHEN THE GOING WAS GOOD.. LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY., BOSTON, 1947.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Fine in a Vg. DJ. (Shelf wear & shallow chipping at spine ends. No loss to titles. Edge tears to jacket. Light foxing at edges. ) (LRC)
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn. WHEN THE GOING WAS GOOD. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1947.
Price: US$89.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DJ price clipped; 8vo; 314 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn.. When the Going Was Good.. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1947.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in carbo brown cloth, in a Near Fine price-clipped dustwrapper, unfaded, slight wear to crown tips, and middle of rear flapfold. 314pp. Q19231
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Waugh, Evelyn.. WHEN THE GOING WAS GOOD.. LITTLE, BROWN. BOSTON 1947, 1947.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. (Shallow chipping at spine ends. Small chip at head of front cover adjoining spine. Traces of mild shelf soiling at lower portion of spine on jacket. A few edge tears. Top edge foxed. )
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Evelyn Waugh. When The Going Was Good. Little Brown & Co, 1947.
Price: US$199.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1947, First American Edition, as stated on copyright page. Little Brown & Co Publisher. Tan cloth boards in very good condition, with gilt lettering on binding, and stamped compass on the front board. Frontispiece is colored picture of Waugh at age 26 from the portrait by Henry Lamb in the Collection of Lord Moyne. 314 pages with slightly pencilled underlining by prior owner. No dust jacket.
Seller: Taylor & Baumann Books, LLC, Ridgefield, CT, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn.. When the Going was Good.. Little Brown, Boston, 1947.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 314 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First American edition. Foxing to fore-edge; one corner very slightly bumped; else a very good copy in a very sharp jacket with the slightest of browning to the spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
WAUGH, Evelyn.. When the Going Was Good.. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1947.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: 314 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First American edition. Just about fine in a bright fresh jacket with a few minute areas of use to the edges.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.