Lot 27
Waugh, Evelyn
Collection of works
Auction: 16 June 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
all 8vo, titles include:
[Sword of Honour trilogy:] Men at Arms; Officers and Gentlemen; Unconditional Surrender. London: Chapman & Hall, 1952-55-61. First editions, first impressions, 3 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets;
Labels: a Mediterranean Journal. London: Duckworth, 1930. First edition, first impression, with the dust jacket (price-clipped, chipped and with repairs verso);
Vile Bodies. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1930. First edition, first impression, original snakeskin-pattern cloth, bookplate, contemporary ownership inscription, damp-staining to edges of boards, concomitant softening and bleeding of dye to corners of endpapers, half-title and title-page, shallow loss to upper fore corners of front free endpaper and half-title;
‘The First Time I Went to the North’ [in:] The First Time I … Edited and Illustrated by the Hon. Theodora Benson. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1935. First edition, first impression, original cloth, dust jacket (spine-panel toned).
Together with 5 further first editions, first impressions in dust jackets (Put Out More Flags, 1942; The Loved One, [1948]; Helena, 1950, jacket price-clipped; Love Among the Ruins, 1952, gift inscription, jacket price-clipped; The Holy Places, 1957, one of 950 copies, jacket price-clipped; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, 1957), 3 further first editions (Remote People, 1931; Waugh in Abyssinia, 1936; Wine in Peace and War, [1947]);
and 4 other Waugh-related items: Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate, 1949 (first edition, first impression, original cloth, dust jacket), and 1 similar (21)