Lot 171
Waugh, Evelyn
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 15 January 2014 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Vile bodies. Chapman & Hall, 1930. Second impression, 8vo, signed by Waugh to endpaper and dated May 1946, original cloth, bookplate, cloth worn; [Idem] Brideshead revisited. Champman & Hall, 1945. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, faded; [Idem] Scoop. Chapman & Hall, 1938. First edition, 8vo, original cloth; [Idem] Black mischief. Chapman and Hall, 1932. First edition, 8vo, original cloth; [Idem] The ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. Chapman & Hall, 1957. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, some chipping to dust-jacket; [Idem] Officers and gentleman. Chapman & Hall, 1955. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket, bookplate to endpaper; [Idem] The loved one. Chapman & Hall, [n.d., 1948?] First edition[?], 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket slightly dust-soiled; [Idem] Helena. Chapman & Hall, 1950. First edition, with second issue dust-jacket; [Idem] Scott-King's modern Europe. Chapman & Hall, 1947. 8vo, dust-jacket price-clipped; [Idem] Remote people. Duckworth, 1931. 8vo, original maroon cloth; [Idem] A tourist in Africa. Chapman & Hall, 1960. 8vo, dust-jacket; [Idem] Wine in peace and war. Saccone & Speed Limited, [n.d.] First edition, original boards, rebacked[?]; [Idem] Love among the ruins. Chapman & Hall, 1953. First edition[?], 8vo, dust-jacket torn; AND a collection of bibliographical work relating to Evelyn Waugh, including McDonnell, Jacqueline Waugh on women. Duckworth, 1986. First edition, author's own copy inscribed to husband; Ziegler, Philip Diana Cooper. Hamish Hamilton, 1981. 8vo, signed and inscribed by the subject, "For Denis & Jackie McDonnell/ with thanks for making our interview so pleasant/from/Diana Cooper/1981 (Lady Diana Cooper was the model for Mrs Stitch in Waugh's novels); and a quantity of other works by and relating to Waugh, sold not subject to return (quantity)
Footnote
Provenance: From the library of Dr Jacqueline McDonnell, and used as reference for her work: Waugh on Women, 1986