Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman & Hall, London, 1945.

Price: US$6000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy SIGNED by Evelyn Waugh on a laid in signature. This First Issue dustjacket has the 10s 6d net printed price present on the front flap. This ORIGINAL sophisticated dustjacket is vibrant in color with NO chips or tears. The book is bound in the publisher's Red Cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the spine and edges. Overall, a wonderful copy SIGNED by the author. We buy Waugh First Editions.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited.. Chapman and Hall, London, 1945.

Price: US$25000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of Waugh's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Evelyn Waugh on the title page. Waugh issued a pre-publication edition of the novel in a run of 50 copies. These were printed and specially bound to distribute among friends for Christmas and to solicit any revisions. Several changes were made as a result of his friends' comments, including suggested alterations by Fr. Martin D'Arcy, Cyril Connolly, and Nancy Mitford. A letter from Graham Greene, Waugh's friend and recipient of one of the 50 copies had indicated that Waugh may have only inscribed 19 of the 50 copies (Jeffrey Young Collection, Sotheby's London, 14 December 1992, lot 182). It is because of the specially issued limited edition that so few copies of the first trade edition exist which are signed. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with tape repair and some closed tears. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Exceptionally rare and desirable signed. "Waugh's most deeply felt novel. Brideshead Revisited tells an absorbing story in imaginative terms . . . Mr. Waugh is very definitely an artist, with something like a genius for precision and clarity not surpassed by any novelist writing in English in his time" (New York Times).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.